YouTube: A film of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle!

[thewayne]

I'd like to know when it was made. It's 10 minutes with scratchy but acceptable audio. He spends some time talking about the origin of Sherlock Holmes, then he switches over to psychic phenomena. *sigh*

http://blog.wired.com/tableofmalcontents/2007/06/sir_arthur_cona.html

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Doyle v. Houdini

[joecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Sir ACD was a huge proponent of psychics. This put him at odds with Harry Houdini who spent considerable effert to debunk them. HH received death threats from the psychic phenomina movement, and ACD viciously attacked him with his pen.

Re: Doyle v. Houdini

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

I knew Houdini was very anti-mystic, I didn't know they were direct opponents. Interesting.