1930--Sherlock Holmes turns railroad engineer--outtakes

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Moving picture and stage actor William Gillette retires at age 72. Scenes of a train ride and Gillette speaking of his miniature train hobby.

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Complete Record: Moving picture and stage actor William Gillette retires at age 72. Scenes of a train ride and Gillette speaking of his miniature train hobby. Copyright University of South Carolina. All rights reserved. See more of our collection at: https://digital.library.sc.edu/departments/mirc/

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[Music] [Music] oh hello are you here oh well well well I wanted to speak to you about something it was awfully nice of you to come and see my locomotive but I thought perhaps you'd like to know a little about it yes what just one moment so I get this all right ladies and gentlemen it's awfully nice of you to come here to see my little locomotive and I hope you're going to take a ride with me I'm gonna ask you before I get through I wanted to talk a moment about myself I don't want to I think it's dreadful and there's so many pleasant things to talk about but I thought I'd say that from my earliest infancy and before for all I know I've had one ambition and that is to drive a locomotive that was quite a number of years ago and it's taken me a long while to arrive at my destination but at last I've done it by building my old locomotive they wouldn't let me drive another one so at last I'm a locomotive driver and I want to have you take a little trip than me if you will and we'll go along over the place and the weather's pretty good and maybe we'll enjoy ourselves then I walk but yes that you comes off then don't you all right all right it was awfully nice of you to call out this little giant locomotive because it shows that you appreciate and approve of its performance this afternoon I noticed you didn't call me out too but I came along anyway because probably you don't as a rule any of you understand the locomotive language and I do and I thought perhaps you'd like to know what the little fellow wants to say you just hold on a minute I'll see oh yes he wants to express his appreciation of your calling about this afternoon and to say to you that you're one of the finest audiences that he ever hauled a train before talking about ambition huh yes about ambition he says that the ambition of his life is when he grows up to be a big locomotive like the real giant for us he hopes to be one that will draw a train from New York to Chicago in seven hours and I think that he'll be liable to do it now you wait and see and what's that he says it's time to go to bed now and so he'll have to say goodbye and he'll go back to his little stall in the Roundhouse thank you very much very gentleman all right that's right


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