Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory" (1966) 1/6

[szilvi4]

sorry abt my English, but i just search for some Capote, n I find Ur upload!

Great tanks for this!!!!

[bgwong2000]

Thank you so very much for posting this—the complete movie! I watched it as a teenager when it first appeared on television many years ago, and still remember it vividly. I thought I would bring a copy of the story to a Christmas gathering & read it aloud (since they never show it on TV…which I don’t understand, since it is one of the best Christmas classic stories…much better than much of the insipid, trumped-up stories they keep showing.. (Only get 500 characters..so, to be continued...)

[homealone2nana]

This is a '10'. Read it when I was very young. What a brilliant gift. Many people have fantastic stories...he had the wisdom...gift and goodness to write it all.Thank you.

[Aozhouxiaoxianzi]

Truman with timeless themes.. thank you

[dylanseadog]

I have longed to see this again for so long..I have no idea why it has not been released and celebrated as the best Christmas special ever. Thank you so much for adding this..you'll hear no complaints about quality from me. There is a bit torrent version of color but this will do just fine. :)

[garlandcottage]

Thank you - to me this IS the ultimate Christmas movie but I haven't seen it since I was a child.... Why don't they release it on dvd, I wonder?

[eyemindtoo]

Geraldine Page was such a treasure.

[MikeysGayToday]

@eyemindtoo She certaintly was. I love this movie!

[SmithFriscoFamily]

I haven's seen this since 1966. But every year I think of it around this time. Thank you.

[myteemouseredux]

I just finished watching the 1997 version with Patty Duke. What an absolutely wonderful movie! Can't wait to watch this '66 version.

[Catwink41]

oh my... Thank you SO much.

[erp65]

@Catwink41 You are so welcome.

[ET3BASS]

@erp65 Is this the rip from the "ABC Stage 67" DVD that's on Amazon? I want to buy my mom this copy for Christmas, but reviewers on Amazon are saying that it's horrible quality. If this is the quality of it, I'm sold.. Looks great to me. Thanks for the upload, Merry Christmas! :)

[erp65]

@ET3BASS Don't hold me to this in a court of law, but yes, I'm 99.44% sure it's a digital copy of the VHS (thus the whining about "poor quality"). It should still be better quality than what I've uploaded, which is a lo-lo-lo-tech digital rip of an old-old-old VHS from a 2-head VCR. Lastly, the original broadcast, I believe, was in color, but the 1983 VHS was in b&w. I actually prefer the b&w. Hope this helps. I know you'll enjoy it, because heart & soul matters more than pixelation.

[tclarke909]

i'm fixin to go pick up some pecans..

[daylightlover]

please put up the whole movie. i do not how to do it. it is a great movie. thank you.

[erp65]

@daylightlover -- The whole movie is up, in 6 parts.

[homealone2nana]

I remember when the books , this and A Christmas Memory, came out and how thrilled we were. They had originally been printed in magazines. Then, wonderfully, on television. They are on my end table through the Holiday Season, and often read aloud with a group. Now, finally, again the movies available. Thank you so much!

[wldheart]

by the time they are in the fields flying the kites I am awash.....so wonderful to see this

[bubblinbrownsuga66]

Oh wow! This is such a beautiful, wonderful find. I was only 2 months old when this originally aired and so I have no memory of it. I never know there was a movie version, but I so love the book. My mother had a copy of the book from the first print and I first read it as a child of about 9 or 10. I loved it so much that I reread it many times over the years and ultimately stole it from her and put it in my permanent collection when I moved into my first home. Book and movie are priceless.

[notsomeoldlady]

its fruitcake weather!

[Nonebound1]

Wonderful story, heartwarming and heartbreaking in the same margin.

[biffvonwrinkle]

its fruitcake weather

[peque1204]

Thank you, I cried when I read it.

[xHol2nYx]

im watching this cause my homework nd i dont like 2 read

[erp65]

@xHol2nYx -- Ha, you could do worse.

[LimeLords]

Is this just like reading the book?

[erp65]

@LimeLords -- It's faithful to the book, but the film is its own animal. Both are worth your time.

[sealfan1000]

Thank you for posting-this is my favorite and I can never find it anymore-Blessings to you!

[patches22]

Thank you so much for posting these videos! I had been wanting to see it again so much. It was a much loved memory of my childhood!

[brassberry1]

hi erp! Its matteos momma. Eiizabeth recommended I watch this and i love it! Thanks!

[dclaire77]

Since I first saw this film and its companion piece (The Thanksgiving

Visitor), as a kid in 1966, Christmas & Thanksgiving always take me back to that year and how moved I was by those dear stories. I've been searching for them on TV, etc. ever since! Many thanks for sharing this one.

[Erniethecatisawesom]

The ending is amazing! The actress playing buddy's friend really did Capote's friend justice. The way she portrayed her was phenomenal!

[erp65]

@Erniethecatisawesom -- Geraldine Page, the greatest of the greats.

[MikeysGayToday]

@erp65 Best Actress EVER! Meryl WHO?

[cmonabear]

I watched this probably 20 years ago and it became my favorite Christmas movie. What a joy to have just found it on YouTube! Thank you so very much for posting. It was the best Christmas present I could have received this year! Again, thanks.

[dharmateacher]

Where can I get my own copy of this in DVD format?

[charlie06840]

@dharmateacher I searched for this yesterday and it's available on Netflix

[CaliforniaMarilyn]

This film is a little treasure -- timeless in capturing the real spirit of Christmas and charming from beginning to end. Thank you for sharing it with us.

[Lissie771]

Thank you SOOOOO much for posting this. Up until now, the only time I had ever watched it was in school one year, and I've been looking for it ever since. They should show THIS every Christmas, as well....

[TheSonny92110]

yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh

[gatogordo1970]

Brilliant!!!

[heysophiabrown]

Ohhhhh, I LOVE THIS! I LOVE TRUMAN! I want the audio... Does anyone know if it's still possible to get the soundtrack?!

[jbadonkadonk]

I love this so much

[araucana1976]

@jbadonkadonk Me too! I had not idea that there was a movie about it...what a pleasant surprise to find it here....This short story of Capote is truly one of my favorites.....a sweet and tender story of a time gone by and one of the most beautiful stories of uncondicional love between two people...................thank you for posting it!!!!!!!!

[sclogse1]

Caught Robert Morse and Shelley Berman in S.F. this week talking about their careers. Morse did Truman in a one man play...Tru. They showed a slide, and I have never seen a more amazing makeup in my life. Total. Baffling in it's realism.

A great day listening to show biz stories. A holy grail to find on tape or DVD.

Capote's script for Beat THe Devil, is very smart. He gets away with murder in the later comments when the characters are being interrogated. You have to keep your ears open for it.

[sweetlittle]

How come its in B/W? My version is in colour.

[erp65]

@sweetlittle -- The original television showing was in color. The VHS reissue was in black-and-white -- not sure why. I've seen the color version. I actually prefer the black-and-white. Fits the tenor of the film & the time.

[BKuchau]

One of my all time favorite pieces of writing and movies. So many thanks for posting this version, the best!

[araucana1976]

@BKuchau By all means mine too!!! ......"Imagine a morning in late November. A coming of winter morning more than twenty years ago. Consider the kitchen of a spreading old house in a country town.

A great black stove it its main feature; but there is also a big round table and a fireplace with two rocking chairs placed in front of it. Just todaythe fireplace commenced its seasonal roar......." That is how this wonderful piece of literary art stars taking the reader through a wonderful ...

[RICHARDDAVISMCLEOD]

Thanks for the information. I grew up in Atmore, Alabama and we went monthly to Camden, Alabama to visit my grandparents and other relatives. I am very familiar with the roads through Escambia, Monroe, and Wilcox County, and this story always brings back to many wonderful memories for me. I remember these style houses, and people like this that were simple in their approach to life, but very simple simple in how they lived life. Something very far from where we are these days, and sadly so.

[creolelady182]

One of the greatest writers of this century Truman Capote, but then southern writers are always brilliant . Just loved this story but I wonder how mnay people under the age of 40 will understand this beautiful story . After all most movies today are 90 percent special effects and 0 character development

[maggiemoo88]

so great to hear truman capote's voice

[Barbaraplease]

so sweet.

[danny53012]

Thank you so much for posting this. I had not viewed it for decades. I did not realize how much I missed it until I saw it again today. I so enjoy its gentle insights.

[epeachygrl]

what songs at the beginning??

[erp65]

My guess is it's an original piece written for the film.

Whatever it is, it's haunting.

[TIPTON340]

@erp65 -- It's based on Truman Copote's novella "A Christmas Memory."

[erp65]

Yes, I noted that in my sidebar notes. Thanks!

[katherine83095]

I just read the story Truman wrote "A Christmas Memory" and now I found it here!!! Right now I'm doing homework about the story....

[setter132000]

I've been looking for this for years. I love this story and am looking foward to showing it to my kids. I just watched it and it brings back a lot of memories when I saw it as a kid.

This is a really a wonderfall film. I actually like the color version better but b&W is almost as good. Thank you for posting.

[nanlisa]

This episode also aired the same night as the Green Acres Christmas episode.

[RICHARDDAVISMCLEOD]

I wish they would release this original version narrated by Truman Capote himself. This was filmed on location in Monroeville, Alabama where Truman grew up as a child.  Geraldine Page plays the part of Aunt Sook. A beautiful version, that is far superior to the later version and especially because Truman Capote is the narrator in this one.

[xaw111]

@RICHARDDAVISMCLEOD this was filmed in pike road alabama about 5 minutes from where i live

[MikeysGayToday]

I own a copy of this movie. I watch every year. I have the book. I cannot tell you how much joy this brings to me. So Happy you posted this....Happy Holidays my friend!

[c64c64c64]

i have never read a book by truman capote...but i have just ordered this online for the chiefly sum of £1.00, by way of introduction! for that reason i haven't watched this video lol...i am favouriting it tho :) for later

[erp65]

The film is a loyal retelling of the book, but both stand on their own merits. Enjoy them.

[frozenstrawbs]

i lowkey cry every time i see this. so good.

[erp65]

Join the club. ;)

[MikeysGayToday]

@frozenstrawbs I cry to! I love this story so. so siimple and sweet.... Geraldine is wonderful!

[lcirej71]

Last year, inside Barnes & Noble, Truman Capote's book, A Christmas Memory (Include One Christmas and The Tanksgiving Visitor), caught my eye. I said to myself, I haven't read this book since my English Class in the 8th Grade. My English teacher made us read this story, which everybody enjoyed. Then the next day we saw this film. Then we were dismissed for the Christmas Holidays.

[erp65]

A nice memory. ;)

[binkle1]

OMIGOD! Thank you for posting this! My late mother just loved this special when it first aired, and then they hardly ever showed it again. This is like an early Christmas present. I've been checking back every year, and this year, it's HERE! Thank you again, SO, SO much! XOXO

[erp65]

Your mother must have had wonderful taste & a deep heart. I hope this brings you wonderful memories.

[weathered79]

i like he one with patty duke the best my mother watches it all the time

[MoeGreensRightEye]

It's a joke from the old Mary Tyler Moore show. Ted Baxter pronounced Capote's last name as if the "e" on the end were silent (ie: rhymes with "remote"). Someone tells Ted he left off the "e". Ted then says, "Oh, right. Truman E. Capote." still pronouncing the last name the way he did earlier.

I should have known that joke was too obscure. :)

[erp65]

Haha. Funny. In the play "Tru" (check my channel), a telephone operator calls him "Mr. CapOAT." Must've been a running joke throughout his life.

[MoeGreensRightEye]

Truman "E" Capote.

[erp65]

Was he a stickler about that?

[cvte2]

I have been looking for this video for so long and even ordered it once but they said it was out of order. Im from this area of Alabama and Truman Capote is my favorite writer! THANK YOU for posting this series of videos of this movie .

[GoneRoundTheBend]

erp65, thank you so much for posting this. I have looked for it for a long time.

[TIPTON340]

I was born in '66 and I saw this twenty years later on ABC, and thereafter off and on on an old videotape copy. Thanks.

[stillwaterguy04]

This is so wonderful and painfully sad at the same time. I've been wanting to see it again for years. Many thanks!

[roried]

They don't make 'em like this anymore, nor are there actresses like Geraldine Page.  It's too bad this beautiful 1966 presentation was never remastered and reissued in the DVD format.. It was released in black & white on VHS, however, although the original TV broadcast was in color. Thanks for posting.

[erp65]

I didn't know that. I think I'd prefer the black-and-white! Perhaps it's just because I'm used to it, but the sparseness seems to fit the story.

[roried]

I taped a color presentation of the program about 10 years ago or so. John Forsyth (sp.) introduced the program, sitiing by a fireplace. I have the VHS-B&W version, too, but the color broadcast is 100% better...in my humble opinion.

[ke02624]

I, too, have a color copy on VHS recorded from my television.

Unfortunately, it is deteriorating.

I had purchased the B&W tape,and was disappointed to find it is inferior to the color version I already possesed.

I would digitalize and post it, but don't know if that would infringe copyright.

Any advice?

[erp65]

Upload & ask questions later -- that's my motto. If the bigwigs & the stuffed shirts get a bug up their behinds (and I doubt they'll ever find it), you can always apologize from the deepest part of your soul & yank the thing.

[paolox3]

Try Facets online. I got an unrestored BW - DVD from them of this, slightly longer than the color version that ran on ABC-TV.

[nllleonard]

Long a favorite of mine...I was thrilled to find it here! A magical but very real story! I knew dear people just like this, growing up in the South.

THank you so much!

~NAncy

[erp65]

Enjoy! ;)

[Jabe88]

I am already so grateful for your effort...

If you have the thanksgiving visitor, I'd be so infinitely grateful!!!

Thank you very very much

[erp65]

My pleasure. And I'll keep my eye out for "Thanksgiving Visitor."

[foxolita]

i must thank you, too. erp65!! i've been wanting to see this again for many years. people, as yourself, that post things like this,make paying the cable bill well worth it:). i have almost every geraldine page movie on vhs, but not this one. she will always be one of my favorite actresses!! thanks again!!

[erp65]

Mine too. From the beginning of her career to the end. One of the greatest actresses of her generation, or any other.

[creolelady182]

Also Capote's short stroy "Miriam is on line. I will send you the link if you are interested.

[erp65]

I found it! Thanks again for the tip. ;)

[creolelady182]

I will try to find this book. Thanks

[creolelady182]

The reason why they have the fast cuts in films these days is because people just do not have the attention spans anymore

[erp65]

Right. Jerry Mander was one of the first to document this phenomenon in his 1978 book "Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television." (Highly recommended!)

Turns out that impatience can be technologically induced and then become a degenerative disease.

[creolelady182]

Erp6

I tell you they don't make great family oriented televison programs like they use to.When I had a media course in college. they discussed this program. This show was a triolgy. Do you have the other two. They were called "In The Paths Of Eden' and "Miriam"

[erp65]

Yeah, for me it's not just the family-friendliness (though it certainly is that) but the honesty, simplicity, and grace of the writing, directing, and acting. That's been demolished with the overproduction, overwriting, overacting, and camera cuts every two seconds.

I've seen snippets of the other two, but I don't have them, no. Do they compare to this one? I can't imagine they do!

[creolelady182]

Thank you for posting this great film. I first saw it when I was 12 on ABC in 1967. My sincere appreciation

[erp65]

My pleasure, creolelady. This film is sweet, quiet, and ultimately heartbreaking. By far my favorite "seasonal" film. Geraldine Page is, as always, stunning.