The Universe & I presents The Interior Motive
I find there's something quite compelling in Nimoy as Holmes. It seems I'm not the only one:
"Nimoy has wanted to play him ever since 1968, when a writer in the Baker Street Journal noted the cerebral similarities between Spock and the beloved Holmes."
I have been after a copy of this short film ever since I first heard about it. One thing I don't understand, anybody?, is that the file I got was labelled with the date 1987. I thought it was made in 1975. I found the following on the web site leonardnimoyDOTde
"The Interior Motive" is # 13 in the series "The Universe and I". The film was updated in 1987. A clip of this film was used in an episode of Sesame Street."
I'm not sure if the Sesame Street comment has anything to do with this 1987 update.
I have put the 150MB .m4v file on SkyDrive. Drill down through the folders Public - North America - The Universe & I presents The Interior Motive (1987).
I haven't had any trouble with playing the .m4v file format but I did try changing it to .mp4 just out of curiosity and had no trouble playing that either. I just thought I'd mention that as something to try if you do have trouble with .m4v files.
The Universe & I presents The Interior Motive
A Kentucky Educational TV Production
1975 / 1987
"The Universe and I" is the title of this educational series produced by KET (Kentucky Educational Television) targeting middle school grades. Funded by The Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) The Kentucky Network showed these series on a "closed circuit TV" in Kentucky public schools. They were filmed in Kentucky.
"The Interior Motive" is # 13 in the series "The Universe and I". The film was updated in 1987. A clip of this film was used in an episode of Sesame Street.
Producer / Director: George Rasmussen
Executive Prod.: Sandra H. Welch
Project directors: Tim Tassie and George Rasmussen
Writers: Richard Smith, David Benjamin, Stephen Jordan, Willard Whitson, Greg Wombel,
---Guy Mendes, Marsha Cooper Hellard, Tim Tassie and George Rasmussen
Assosiate Producers: Marsha Cooper Hellard and Dorothy Peterson
Videographer: Robert K. Simmons
Editors: Dick Raynor and Tony Minton
Title Design: Martha Chute
Set Design: Fred Rivers, Missy Holloway, Bob Shannon and Bob Thomas
Researcher: Laura Stone
SherlockHolmes : Leonard Nimoy
Dr. Watson : Burt Blackwell
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson receive a globe and a letter.
Holmes orders Watson to read the letter again: "My secret within you must seek out. But spare my skin or break my heart."
No signature given.
After Holmes had left in the morning and before the paper boy had come, he found a globe in front of their door, accompanied by a cryptic note. Watson urges Holmes to solve the riddle – before the Royal Society will be at his home tonight.
Their first findings tell them that the inside material must be heavier than the outside material. Therefore ,Sherlock states that the globe is not made of the same materials throughout and he must use inferencing to solve the riddle. "It does not tell us very much," Watson remarks. "Then we have to learn more," Holmes responds and checks on the temperature inside through a little hole. Next, Holmes listens to the globe with a stethoscope and hears slight rumblings. Now Holmes sets up a series of mirrors and lights and tries vibrations which he divides into primary and secondary vibrations. The primary vibrations going through gasses, liquid, air and solids, the secondary through solids only.
For his nephew's birthday Watson has bought a compass. As he unpacks it, he wonders why it is not showing north but to the globe. Holmes finds the missing piece to the riddle and promises Watson the answer tonight when the Royal Society will be in.
In front of them Holmes explains how he came to the solution: The difference the waves of vibration gave him a clue where the core is located and it's dimensions. The temperature and the magnetic field indicate what a the core is about: Hot melted metal. As they applaud, Holmes refuses the praise at first because the real answer is that he used the same methods he would use in solving a crime.
So therefore, a detective is a scientist and the scientist a detective. Now he accepts the applause. When all have left Holmes admits that he has not solved the final question: Where it had come from?
Thanks to the web site leonardnimoyDOTde for description.
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Hello Jake,
We know each other from Demonoid and Myanonamouse.net. I actually attended a live stage play of Wm. Gillette's Sherlock Holmes with Leonard Nimoy playing the lead role in Chicago in 1976. That same year I also attended a play on Dracula with Jeremy Brett in the lead.
Gordon a.k.a gordonio
Hi Gordon. Good to hear from you. One of the discussions in this group is about my Holmes SkyDrive account and I've linked to it in the discussion. There's about 25GB of radio/podcast type files on the account. Maybe you can find something of interest that you don't already have!
Thanks, Jake! This is something I knew of but had never seen.
Roger
Thanks Roger. I was beginning to think that nobody else in the group had heard of this.
On just about every site I've come across that mentions this show it is assumed that no recording of it exists.
I came across it recently on the site iOffer, a sort of auction site. It cost me $12. Generally I refuse to pay for something when the person selling it doesn't own the copyright and find if I wait a while it will come to me eventually no charge anyway. I just couldn't resist this time though.
I will just add to avoid confusion that on iOffer it's similar to eBay where you get people selling mp3 CD-Rs of OTR material. I have not received my purchase yet (I got the seller to upload the m4v file to Dropbox for me as well) but I believe it will be something like a DVD-R with either the m4v file burnt to it (typically called a data disc) or maybe as a DVD-Video (where the video is contained in .VOB files).