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Title: SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE: The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes

Reference number: 5781

Date: 1986

Sound: sound

Colour: col

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 26.00 minsc

Description: Dramatised biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Film comprises illustrations, old newsreel, photographs, dramatised sequences.

First series looking at famous people who have been honoured on other nations' postage stamps. This programme tells the story of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, who identified more and more with his hero creation, the more popular the books became. [synopsis from BFI Archive at http://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150292840, last accessed 22/02/2021]

Part of the 'Stamp of Greatness Series' - a series looking at famous people who have been honoured on postage stamps. See also ref. 13689, 5817, 5739

Shotlist: [Note: shotlisted fom mute viewing print. 1'' inch tape is also preserved which may have sound]

[no credits] Biography with voiceover of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle from his beginnings as a medical student and GP before writing Sherlock Holmes. Subsequent publications include investiging miscarriages of justice. He had important effects on English legal system. Film comprises illustrations, old newsreels, old photographs, dramatised sequences. Illustrations of Edinburgh, film from 1897 of Queen Victoria, film from Boer War and World War I (24.39)