Sherlock Holmes Baffled is a very short American silent film created in 1900 with cinematography by Arthur Marvin. It is the earliest known film to feature Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective character Sherlock Holmes. In the film, a thief who can appear and disappear at will steals a sack of items from Holmes. At each point, Holmes’s attempts to thwart the intruder end in failure.
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Sherlock Holmes Baffled is a very short American silent film created in 1900 with cinematography by Arthur Marvin. It is the earliest known film to feature Arthur Conan Doyle’s detective character Sherlock Holmes, albeit in a form unlike that of later screen incarnations. In the film, a thief who can appear and disappear at will steals a sack of items from Sherlock Holmes. At each point, Holmes’s attempts to thwart the intruder end in failure. Although produced in 1900, it was only registered in 1903, and a copyright notice stating this is seen on some prints. Assumed to be lost for many years, the film was rediscovered in 1968 as a paper print in the Library of Congress. The film has been transferred to 16 mm film in the library’s 16 mm collection.
The plot of Sherlock Holmes B Affled is unrelated to Sir Arthur Conan Boyle’s canonical Sherlock Holmes stories; it is likely that the character’s name is the same as the name of a character in one of Doyle’s other works. The identities of the actors playing the first screen Holmes and his assailant are not recorded. Despite being in circulation, Sherlock Holmes Baffled was only registered on February 24, 1903, and this is the date seen on the film’s copyright title card. The director and cinematographer was Arthur Weed Marvin, a staff cameraman for Biograph. He later became known for filming vaudeville entertainers, and was known as the Cameraman for the early silent films of D. W. Griffith.
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