An interview of Arthur Conan Doyle: The film was shot in October 1928 for Movietone News in his garden at his Windelsham estate, with his Irish terrier, Paddy.
Few know about Conan Doyle's deep interest in matters of spirituality; Sherlock Holmes, Doyle's famous detective doesn't show any obvious signs of being spiritual, however, the manner in which he dashes off into corners of reclusivity between bouts of scientific crime-solving, tells us that Sherlock too had his mystical moments.
Conan Doyle was one of those late Victorian males who got drawn to Madame Blavatsky's teachings. Blavatsky, variously known as a con and the mother of modern spirituality, opened an otherwise rational era's--the Victorians were anxious to define themselves as a rational and scientific people, against the superstitious Orientals--eyes to the psychic part of human existence.
Doyle made secret visits to Blavatsky's seance parlors in the London suburbs; in this interview, he bravely defends his views on spirituality.
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