The Sherlock Holmes Influence| Absolute History
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- Опубліковано 27 сер 2024
- With continuing releases of major films and TV series on Sherlock Holmes, the fictional character has never been more popular. But what about his creator, the author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, whose own life was at times as dark and as mysterious as the man he created?
How was this extraordinary character formed and did he, as so many believe, really exist? The story behind the creation of this Victorian phenomenon is both disturbing and mystifying. It takes the viewer on a journey through the Edinburgh of the young Conan Doyle and the darker influences in his life, and onto the streets of London. What was it about Sherlock Holmes that captured the imagination of society as it entered the exciting, yet frightening world of the 20th century?
With dramatic visualisations, contributions from leading Holmesian experts, figures from the world of literature and research, and evidence from the medical community, the Sherlock Holmes enigma is dissected and the truth begins to emerge. This brand new documentary explores the intriguing world of Conan Doyle and discovers the truth behind his decision to to kill off the man who had dominated his life for so long in one dramatic episode.
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I think Arthur Conan would've been pleased with Jeremy Brett's portrayal of Holmes. To me he WAS Holmes. His little tics and mannerisms. Just wonderful. Holmes is the greatest literary creation in history (imo) and we as a society are lucky to have been gifted him
That's intense Allie
Basil Rathbone for me.
@@bookmouse2719 Absolutely !
Can't agree more. He was Holmes straight from the pages of Conan Doyle ' s stories.
Agreed -- Jeremy Brett was so amazing as Holmes!
The irony of a mysterious detective is what gets people so captivated by Sherlock Holmes. He solves the crimes; but who will solve him?
Sherlock Holmes is such a universally appealing character that even I was immediately captivated by him when I first discovered him as a 10-year-old American girl back in the ‘80s. Looking through my older brother’s bookshelves one day, I found a little collection of a few of the Holmes stories. As soon as I started reading them, I was hooked! That Christmas my parents bought me an enormous volume of all the Holmes stories and novels, which I finished reading months later.
As a teenager, I loved watching Jeremy Brett play Holmes in the TV series on PBS, and I was fortunate to visit the Sherlock Holmes museum in London one summer. Now, in my 40s, I still love to sneak back into the mystery and intrigue of foggy, Victorian England. It’s amazing that one person could create such an enduring and brilliant character!
For me it was Jeremy Brett's Holmes adaptations I watched as a teenager that led me to the written stories by Doyle. I ended up collecting all the written works and have been a Holmes fanatic ever since.
I remember crying and crying in Dunkin Donuts (maybe 8 years ago) reading Sherlock's death as if something had actually happened to me. I had just gotten cataract surgery, and was loving my eyes back.
I dont have cataracts... but I feel this. ... finished a good book or show even. And you're just left feeling like your closest friends just died...
Sherlock is an emotion 😇😇😇😇😘😘😘😘😘
After watching the Granada TV series of Sherlock Holmes, I now can visualize that A. Conan Doyle placed himself in the stories as the character named Dr. John Watson. In writing fiction, many writers, including myself, had employed that particular perspective. After all writing is from the personal outlook of the writer.
I just love that series! The best screen Sherlock Holmes!
@@tuijak4251 I agree with you.
Do you plan to remain "unknown"? I can't help but notice your pseudonym. 😁
@@moondancer9066 I am honored that you asked that question. Most likely I am unknown as my life circumstances turned out. I have written blogs, poetry, a short story and last but not least commentary on UA-cam, Twitter, etc. I have not earned one cent from it all.
Your pseudonym fascinates my imagination. I can imagine myself dancing among the cosmic entities. Explain how "Moon Dancer" fits in with perception of yourself and your outlook on life.
My favourite stories of all time 😍We're all Dr. Watson!
55:46. Yes. I think we all like the idea of still being remembered 100 years after our death. Especially for a good reason.
Your comment is quite interesting. I can remember feeling the want of being remembered years after my existence in my younger years.
Who killed Sherlock Holmes? Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. I'm pleased the story does not devolve into another vivification.
I agree with the others. Absolute history has some fun documentaries, but this number of ads is ridiculous. They cut in just at the wrong moments too.
Pro tip- advance the video past each yellow ad mark then take the time all the way back to the beginning and boom...no ads!
A case for Mr. Adbloc!
Ten ads....really??!
I have just UNSUBSCRIBED. 😠
@@HeckleTV
Ten adverts in one program is taking the piss hence why I UNSUBSCRIBED. I don't mind one at the begining and one at the end of the program but continually interrupting is Ignorant and very annoying. You have your own content channel so I suppose you are biased towards the monetisation of what was once add free content.
@@HeckleTV Same :)
God forbid they get payed for their work
Ad blocker? I get no ads. Your choice. ;)
Sherlock Holmes has even Been in Cartoons, Such as Bravestarr, And Sherlock Holmes in The 22nd Century, And Even Shadows of him and Dr. Watson can Be seen in Disney's The Great Mouse Detective, Because Basil of Baker Street Lives in the walls of the house that Sherlock Holmes lives in, Toby is the Dog of Sherlock Holmes, and Probably The Hound of the Baskervilles.
There are who bunch of fascinating Holmes stories written by other writers, including a slew that fleshed out what he might've been up to on his "hiatus" from detecting and created a fascinating compilation.
This was nice, it’s nice to have real documentaries and not a tabloid expose of how terrible the author actually was or something of the sort
Many authors are terrible people in real life! Charles Dickens was so awful it's hard to believe he wrote those books! 🤣
I have read and re-read the tales of Sherlock Holmes. Those stories are my favorite. BTW, first.
spiritusmundi70: It’s been a long time since I read any of Conan Doyle’s stories, I should re-read them, too! My favourite was always Agatha Christie’s stories.
@@sandrastreifel6452 you can get them online for free on Google. I have an old paperback that I like to read.
An excellent documentary on the author.
His genius is his ability to see and depict all things good and bad, much like Dickens.
Very well-done! Love Sherlock Holmes, can’t wait to go to England this fall and visit 221B Baker Street. This is well-written and researched. Bravo!
I share your enthusiasm regarding, perhaps, the greatest fictional character ever created. I don't want to disappoint you in the fact there simply was no 221B Baker St. at the time of Holmes creation. Baker St. in the late 19th century was not as long as it is today and even when extended, it simply had no such address.
Fortunately, there have been so many inquiries, letters, and visitors to the address an actual 221B has been established.
I hope you enjoy your trip and are able to indulge yourself in a topic that has held my imagination and passion for decades.
Tempest Fury-though there never was a 221B Baker Street. However, there is a Sherlock Holmes Museum on Baker Street. Technically it’s not at the address 221B but it’s there. Google it. They’ve created an exact replica , looks a lot like the set from the movies with Basil Rathbone from the 1940’s. That is explained in this documentary.
Way too many BS ads! Please tone it down a bit - otherwise thanks for sharing this documentary!
I was introduced to Sherlock Holmes by Basil Rathbone when I was a child, since then I 've been hooked. Loved Jeremy Brett as Sherlock ❤️ I have all the episodes and films on DVD, never get tired of watching them. 🤗
2:23 lmao it's that one sound-effect on iMovie
After watching the video more questions emerge and an irresistible aim for reading again Connan Doyle comes to me ❤
PLEEEEASEEEE! Stop using those AAAAWFUL cheap sound effects for shocking moments!!!
Excellent presentation as well as the violin score in the background ... Thank You for this🎻🕵🔍🔎
One must Wax the Bow of the Violin if it's to Play Correctly, it's like Adding a Wooden Reed to a Saxophone, Clarinet, or other such Woodwind Instruments.
Most of Doyle's other works are forgotten, but there is 'The Lost World', featuring Professor Challenger, who is another interesting creation, and who appears in a number of short science fiction stories.
It could be something more. Conan Doyle as you say in this was interested in Spirituality, he may have tapped into it without knowing. Several authors who have created some of the most memorable characters, Mary Poppins, Conan the Barbarian to name just two, stated that they did not create those characters. The author of Mary Poppins said that she thought that Mary Poppins was idea and a character that had always been there, she had just been the person that Mary showed herself too, I'm paraphrasing. Robert Howard had once said that Conan had come to him and told him of his adventures and that he, Howard had just recorded what Conan had told him. These two authors and the others with unforgettable characters like Homes are often said to have been "Natural Storytellers". Perhaps all of these people who are said to be these storytellers have all tapped into something spiritual and this is why it seems that so many of them appear to have predicted some future events, such as Huxley and Orwell to name two.
I'm only halfway through the video & already pissed off at so many ads! Definitely won't be subscribing!
Pro tip- advance the video past each yellow ad mark then take the time all the way back to the beginning and boom...no ads
@@opulentmissopal1123 That might work for most folks but I live in the boonies & my internet is frustrating at best! It would take me 30 minutes to do the fast forward & another 10 to start over. Only other option is to watch at off time of 2 AM when others are off line. Not worth the effort when there are plenty of channels to watch without excessive commercials.
@@cathyrowe594 ah, yes that would be annoying. Sorry!
Wow waaaaaay too many ads!!
What an amazing story, thank you. Just one advert at the beggining.
What I don't understand is that serialized stories of detectives in magazines were already a thing (Poe's Dupin, or Lecoq)... Why did Holmes have such a meteoric rise and not them ? Because he was a better detective, as he himself says when Watson compares him to them ?
I'm from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada and I have always wanted to visit London, England and visit Baker Street and The Sherlock Holmes museum. My first experience with Sherlock Holmes was actually the Disney movie "The great mouse detective" (Sherlock Holmes and John Watson make appearance's) and I got interested in the fictional worlds greatest detective back in my Elementary school days (grade 6).
Try an watch Jeremy Brett aka sherlock Holmes an English series a great great series .
Very interesting thank you 🙏
Too many ads !
Watching from Mackinac Island Michigan
Waller as a reason for the 'murder' of Holmes - quite a stretch. Film & TV stars galore report(ed) feeling trapped by their iconic characters! Doyle showed similar, deep frustration about Holmes.
Interesting profile of Conan Doyle - but the background music is too loud and the dialog not loud enough. Don't like blasting the volume to hear the voices.
Terrific!
Sherlock Holmes the greatest detective in history since Batman,a mind sharp as a tack,he could outwit any characters in the literary world.If he were real,I'd love to meet him and share some of his adventures with him and Dr.Watson
Holmes actually pre dated Bob Kane by about fifty years.
Just above Columbo
ok ive seen a few sherlock documentaires the last few days and im 100 percent sure they keep reusing the same exact footage from this one multiple times. wow.
If those statues don't look very much like Basil Rathbone, I will be very disappointed
yes, I agree with you
Best fictional character ever
40:01 Last and FIRST time. Moriarty never was mentioned until that story. Not once.
Wonderful, documentary on Conan Doyle... & his altar ego Sherlock.
Was this doc previously done with a different host? I was watching a UA-cam video the other day and this is the same content but there was a bespectacled curly haired host. It looked to be ripped from someone’s computer (windows apps would momentarily blink onto the screen).
"Kill that nice mister Holmes? Dont you dare!" Paraphrase S King
But it was me Dio!!
Favorites: *Basil Rathbone* then *Jeremy Brett* in order of appearance in the films. If I had to chose one of the two it would be *Jeremy* forever aka *Peter Jeremy William Huggins* Born 11~ 3 ~ 1933 / 9 ~ 12 ~ 1995 Died age 61 ... way to young to die
The sound on this upload is horrible, unwatchable.
The true killer Sir Aurther Coenin Doyle
I’m sure this video is good but I can’t hear it The volume is horrible
Idk if it's true or not but i read somewhere that he and h.p lovecraft were friends.
Gosh I hope not! Lovecraft was a known racist and if we are going by the characterization of Holmes...he was a bohemian...which I believe is the opposite of a racist
Who killed Sherlock Holmes the Royal family in the tunnel in a horse draw carriage
I swear I heard him say Arthur's sister was named brian
You did.
They never cast an actor who looked like Bell to play Sherlock. That white hair.
Yo, I found upgrade Cameron Diaz!
I eat cookies.
Tone down that bloody volin we cant hear.
A.A. Milne and Winnie the Pooh..familiar ?
Today I subscribed your channel but background voice is too irritating so please avoid in next vedio background music horrible
9 spots for adverts?? Are you serious? No thanks. 👎
I have UNSUBSCRIBED.
❤
Scotland Yard.
Arthur "Cunn un" Doyle? Really?
This vidoe has a chaotic and repetitive narrative. Get on with it already, enough with the quiestions.
Sherlock ever had girlfriend or wife?
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏💙💙💙
It would be awesome to read the book of Enoch...
Fraudulent religion? *Why*?
Jeffrey Dahmer was in apartment 213....go now write that story youre thinking of now.....
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I heard that in the documentary to, Spooky.
Museums for fictional characters? And people wonder why the world is all screwed up, how long has this been perpetuated in reality without correction..
A museum dedicated to Sherlock Holmes is by far the least of our problems
Great! Thanks!
@#rolfdejonge@