Sherlock Holmes Baffled

[Convict13]

Apparently this is the whole movie, it goes for just under 1 minute and Sherlock seems to be baffled.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmffCrlgY-c

[Carol the Dabbler]

I suppose that's from the era when people would watch anything that moved.  Presumably that Holmes is not William Gillette, so Gillette was not the first movie Holmes.  I also see here that neither was he the first stage Holmes, though he was perhaps the first actor who was well known as Holmes.

 

[Convict13]

1900, so film was only 5 years old with the first ever public screening of film in 1895.  It is interesting to note the "special effects" so early into film's history.  Still 1 minute seems a little "short" even for that period.  

[Pawse]

It's not William Gillette, but I have absolutely no idea who the fella is in Baffled. He's completely unknown.

[Carol the Dabbler]

Apparently no one knows who the two actors were (see Wikipedia).  This was originally produced for an arcade peep-show machine, which may explain why it's so short.  But it's still the first known screen appearance for Holmes, and also the first known detective film.