What they are doing is making a transcription on a recorder or dictaphone that can be transcribed for a wire service, also the NBC network. . Both Hemingway and the interviewer are reading from cue cards below them. It sounds stilted, but it was filmed for record. The film was probably meant to be edited by the network and not shown in it’s entirety. Hemingway suffered many injuries and health problems, but this short film is not indicative of them

I'm from Saudi Arabia and never heard of Ernest Hemingway until my late uncle who spent 21 years in psych ward told me about him and recommended his novels especially "to whom the bell tones" , i miss you so much my dear uncle and my best friend and I'm still keeping my promise to remember you everyday

How can anybody find this amusing. It breaks my heart to see how much this man had to endure. I love his books and I can’t imagine how hard it must’ve been for him.

@D45VR

4 жыл бұрын

I read 'Farewell to Arms' when I was 19 and the memory of the emotion I felt is still present.

Heartbreaking to see him in that shape.

RIP Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961), aged 61 You will always be remembered as a legend.

Oh dear, that was hard to watch. I have nothing but praise and gratitude for this master of language!

The way the interviewer looks down after he answers each of the first two questions and just says "god damn.." it must have been such a shock to see him like this in person

What I like about it is at the end you can see how warm and personable Ernest is. He shakes the interviewer's hand and you can see he is genuine and warm.

I like his sweet smile at the end.

It seems another of famous writers suffered so many tragedies, perhaps that's why they are such good writers. This guy was phenomenal. I can almost feel his spirit when I read his works.

Earnest Hemingway was a brave soul and an intellectual pioneer with huge spirit. So brave to have given that interview, it would have been easy enough to hide and say no. But he did the interview even with his challenges from the brain injury from the plane crashes. Thank you for posting this interview.

This is so sad, and tragic, such a legend

An amazing life for a truly gifted writer. I hope he's at peace.

I would love to find a full interview with him just talking about his life. One could only imagine what stories he would have told if he had been able to live a full life without succumbing to depression. Rest in Peace

@eharris6347

6 ай бұрын

Ken Burns did a pretty good 6 hour documentary on him

As creative person who has suffered a brain injury and ptsd my heart goes out to Hemingway. 💚💚💚

Well, this was unusual. Thank you for posting it here. I woke up this morning and sat at my desk to make lists and write Morning Pages, suddenly I became curious to hear Hemingway speak -- so -- you tube.

An amazing interview . Just an hour before , i read about this interview and here it is . According to a comment here , they are both reading from cue cards as this interview is to be edited and transcribed onto disc . That would explain why Hemingway is reading out punctuation marks and is therefore not as strange at first viewing . Although he did suffer from terrible head trauma , through various accidents through out his life .

@user-rg1gi2do7b

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for explaining! While watching I was wondering why he was saying punctuation marks.......

@andrewn3146

7 ай бұрын

Strangely enough --- I do exactly the same as I talk to Google Translator and other voice-to-text apps. Thanks for sharing about the interview setup.😊😊

Had a professor who would rave about Hemingway and I never got it. Then I read Cormac McCarthy's 'All the Pretty Horses' and realized he had stylistically done what Hemingway was working towards. Went back and read Hemingway again to discover why my professor had rave about him. And when teaching high-school pupils how to read 'The Old Man and the Sea' discovered what a great novel that is.

Papa suffered some brain damage. He knew it and that was the primary factor in his suicide. He had lost some cognitive function and could no longer write.

@brandonford4474

5 жыл бұрын

This is many years before his suicide in 1961

@poop97938

4 жыл бұрын

and this is the correct answer

I bet this was going to be an article and he wanted his speech to be written perfectly. If you read this vs listening to it (especially taking into accoubt this was in Cuba which means it will be translated) it reads perfectly and coherently.

Oh, dear, I have never seen this clip before and am totally shocked and saddened to see the hero of my youth in this shape. I knew of his physical ailments, but did not know about his cognitive decline. I was living in Idaho as a boy when he killed himself.

He'd suffered a head injury and is reading from notes/cards on the floor, hence why he says "period" and "comma" aloud. It's both humorous and sad to see someone who could be quite eloquent suffering this way.

@MichaelSHartman

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the information. It is sad for me to see someone so eloquent debilitated. I suspect that the novel he spoke of was The Old Man and the Sea.

@burtvhulberthyhbn7583

5 жыл бұрын

Wow. He's obviously suffering some kind of brain trauma.

@lewisorr8658

5 жыл бұрын

@@MichaelSHartman no, he's referring to True at First Light which was unfinished and published posthumously by his son Patrick in the 90s

@raiderrichard7291

5 жыл бұрын

Marvin its not humorous at all asshole

@miketufaro5915

5 жыл бұрын

I don’t think so he said it’s about Africa.

It is horrific to see him struggle. At the same time, he struggled throughout his whole life. What a person.

Today we'd call it CTE, the result of numerous head injuries. Combined with alcoholism and other ills, it wrecked him. He was 55 in this interview.

Fun Fact: If you watch the recently-aired (April-2021) Ken Burns documentary 'Hemingway' you will learn that for whatever reasons they decided to have him read his answers in this interview. They later on decide to replace this interview with one with just audio of Hemingway reading his answers.

Thank you so much for sharing this masterpiece. As matter of fact, I have never seen any Hemingway video so crisp and with high quality.

He's on serious medication, as a result of painful injuries from two plane crashes in Africa, one right after the other, as even his rescue plane went down.

He was in a damaged place at this point. Just finished listening to audio book "Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy: Ernest Hemingway's Secret Adventures, 1935-1961" Definitely recommend.

Thank you for posting this!

Hemingway was mechanical in his speech but coherent. Some of the comments about this film are ignorant. I think we are fortunate to get to see this much of Ernest Hemingway. He was a great writer.

"During his final years, Hemingway's behavior had been similar to his father's before he killed himself. his father may have had the genetic disease hemochromatosis, in which the inability to metabolize iron culminates in mental and physical deterioration.[156] Medical records made available in 1991 confirm that Hemingway had been diagnosed with hemochromatosis in early 1961." Perhaps this is why he has to read from paper below him and have prompts from the interviewer?

It's unbelievably sad how such an amazing author and perhaps the best author on war is suffering so much:((

This makes cry. Fucking depressing, OMG. Poor Ernest. I can't stand this.

Miss your voice. Love you dearly

I know someone that received a brain injury due to a fight he was caught up in at a Halloween party as a teenager, He is still a neighbor and seems to have had a fully functional life and speaks exactly like this in pauses, It is amazing the determination that a brain injured person puts into continuing with a normal life from the inside and all we notice is the discrepancy, There are people without any brain injury that would speak in this fashion simply out of nervousness of being interviewed by a person, with a national television crew, for a world audience. "He got away with being a writer". H.S.T.

He had just smashed a window open with his head to get out of a crashed plane. Obviously he had a serious brain injury due to the crash and subsequent head injury hitting the glass.

"Later that year, after the African trip, Hemingway’s diminished mental capacities are unmistakable when he is named the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature. Back at home in Cuba, he was physically unable to travel to Sweden to accept the award, so the Swedish ambassador traveled to him. Photos for the event catch a smile that conveys a lucid stream of thought and forthright happiness. But in a rare TV interview with NBC after the award was announced, he struggles mightily. He agreed to do the interview only if the questions were provided in advance. And his answers are written on cue cards."

he nearly broke the interviewers hand at the end there, rip Ernest

My favorite Writer. Him and Mark Twain.

As you can see from the scar on his forehead, Ernest was still recovering from horrendous trauma received from TWO recent air crashes, the last one which caused cerebral damage. He never truly recovered from these injuries. He was indeed reading from cards during this interview. This was over 60 years ago, and there just wasn't a full understanding of head injuries at that time--we're just now understanding concussion damage in the NFL. The video is saddening in it's content, but so valuable in context.

Hemingway is a good speaker and writer, and he is very tolerant with others.

I didn't know it was gonna be like this. Wish I hadn't watched it. Horrible. Let the man rest with dignity.

What a man. Kills me to see him like this.

Ernest Hemingway's life & books live on........He lived more in 61 yrs. than most of us in a lifetime. Karen Bergman

Let the man read his notes, leave him alone already. He is a monumental figure.

So sad to see this. I believe it was after he had had electro-shock therapy for depression.

Truly the most interesting man who ever lived.

I think it’s probably not as sad as it looks. He was clearly reading. In those days he probably just assumed no one would actually see the interview but that the transcript and quotations would go worldwide so being a controlling personality, he simply wrote the answers and read them to be transcribed, not caring much how it appeared, only how it read. Just my guess.

@everynewdayisablessing8509

Жыл бұрын

Very reasonable guesses.

I wish I could have seen Earnest Hemingway in his full glory because this is not what I was looking for. I was looking for a brilliant intellectual and found only an emoty husk of what the man "Supposedly" was.

He got that scar on his forehead drunk in Paris as a young cat after a night out. Came back to his apartment, drunk wrestling. He was new to Paris. Paris apartments have lower ceilings. He stood and smashed his head into a lighting fixture. There are photos of him in Paris with a white bandage round his head.

Hemingway never forgot the importance of being Ernest.

@trishulmulay26

5 жыл бұрын

David cawrowl he hated the name ernest..

@poop97938

4 жыл бұрын

this is an idiotic comment...the importance of being ernest is a long shot stupid attempt at trying to be witty regarding hemingway. ZERO correlation what so ever.

Great man!!!

it was a radio interview being recorded on video as well

First time I've ever seen any type of filmed interview with the great Ernest Hemingway. It's quite apparent that he was suffering from some type of emotional or physical distress. Thanks for posting this very rare piece of film footage.

God bless the great Ernest Hemingway who means so much to me.

Brought me to tears watching him like this. Thank you Mr Hemingway, we appreciate you and your work. Without it life would be a bag of cat shit, on fire with a pack of Winston's watching in horror.

Shocking. I'm sure they never broadcast this. If they had it would have been infamous by now.

Un de mes écrivains préférés avec Bukowski. D'ailleurs le dernier de Bukowski vient de paraitre sur A ma zon. Le titre c'est Le Glas Ne Sonne Pour Personne..

VERY IMPRESSIVE.........

He's actually reading his response on cue cards.

jesus christ this is sad. now I know why he chose to go to the next life.

seems very rare to find video footage of the man

Everyone is the comment section feels sympathetic towards Hemingway. But let me tell you, he really lived his life. He was a G.O.A.T.

Merci beaucoup¡¡

Wow! How sad.

Wow ... hard to watch. 😢

I had no idea he had a speech problem at the end of his life.

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When you choose to live super large you are bound to bump your head on the sky...and other places.🙏

I believe this is a result of him wanting to be precise with his word’s. I also know they were shocking his brain thinking it was helping.He wanted to say simple words and not scramble his interview that would go across the wire.He expected to be heard not seen. RIP Mr Hemingway God Bless you sir.

@julla1416

Жыл бұрын

He was reading from cue cards.

His voice is much more high pitch than I thought.

never heard him speak before 1 of my heros somethings wrong

What a fantastic man . Tragic trauma and end .

A sad ending for such a great artist.

I hadn't realized how serious Hemingway's injuries were from the crashes. Even in his speech, you can hear that his brain was severely affected. It's too bad.

It is hard to have to see such a real man have to admit such defeat. In the end, the end is everything, and it should be embraced with dignity. There is no point in outliving yourself. I know what I have to do, when all the alternatives are worse. As, in the real end, Ernest did.

wow, i wonder if he healed from it eventually , concussions are crazy. Really liked the one collection of stories i have read by him so far

He's speaking like someone is taking shorthand - like someone is manually recording every word by hand. I don't think this was meant to be a filmed interview - I'm thinking someone was there taking hand written notes for a magazine. I mean - Hem is giving punctuation!

Aaaw, this is rather sad, for a guy whose writing is among the most expressive and insightful in the world.

Interview from back before celebrities had handlers who trained the how to do interviews. And I don't say that to denigrate Hemmingway. It's just that there's a way to conduct oneself on camera, and, at that time, most famous people like him, who were not movie stars, were not accustomed to how to do that. It made for more than a few awkward interviews of famous people.

@vicvega3614

6 ай бұрын

He was recently in a dam plane wreck, 2 plane wrecks

This must be after one of his 147 accidents. Poor Ernesto.

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Painful to watch. The man was a genius in his time ...

He's hammered

He was receiving electro shock therapy for his bipolar disorder. It resulted in memory loss/brain damage. Very unfortunate.

If you want to read a good book about the many brain injuries Hemingway suffered read “ Hemingway’s Brain”. You can also find an interview with the author on You Tube.

It just adds to his mystique.

Blink if you're being held here against your will.

Wish, they could ask questions about ''Agnes von Kurowsky'' because she affected hemingway's life psychologically hard and ım really curious about that

Ernest Hemingway had been undergoing, or more accurately, it was strongly suggested to him, electroshock "therapy". There came a time, when knowing his powers of the pen had been sapped by the very electrical shocks that held promise for his "dark place". No longer able to do the very thing that made living bearable, the end of a rifle barrel became Earnest;s end,

A man can be destroyed but not defeated.

Who is the interviewer? For what NBC program was this filmed? (Qui est l'intervieweur? Pour quel programme NBC a-t-il été filmé?)

0:42 interviewer:"Goddamn. That's som'thin'" Hemingway:"Go ahead"

Was he ok when he gave this interview Why is he looking down as if reading the dialogue?

Why is Hemingway reading his responses and why is he verbalizing the 'period' at the end of the sentence? The only time he sounds natural is at the end of the interview when he shakes the interviewer's hand and laughs. Was this in order to translate the interview?

For me, it's so sad to watch this after loving the guy through "The Sun Also Rises". That's my absolute favorite of his work. Either A.) this is post EST, which Hem hated because it fried his brains really hard and may account for his bizarrely stunted speech and "doctor's orders". B.) He's stupid drunk. C.) Both. Also the poor guy was tortured by not only the treatment, but the reason for the treatment, which were supposed to be paranoid delusions that he was being followed by the government. The claims were actually true. So if this is 54, he would pass away six year later. He was also suffering from, among other things, the loss of his creative voice. The poor guy just descended into nothing.

several head and many bodily injuries, an abusive childhood, alcoholism, and being spied on by Hoover and the FBI did him in. He was a tragically beautiful person.

When he reads out the punctuation, it seems clear that he's under a medical regime that includes powerful antidepressant or antipsychotic drugs. The medications available in those days were crude, powerful and frequently damaging. He seems to have had a fear of being filmed or recorded, but in this instance he's very unwell.

Very sad 😢🇧🇷.

Always thought his voice would be much deeper, masculine, and confident than this.