1 00:00:33,714 --> 00:00:36,342 He was the phenomenon of the twenties. 2 00:00:36,383 --> 00:00:40,649 When you think that, at that time, he was as well-known as Lindbergh... 3 00:00:40,687 --> 00:00:42,882 it's really quite astonishing. 4 00:00:45,592 --> 00:00:49,221 His story reflected the nature of our civilization... 5 00:00:49,262 --> 00:00:51,230 the character of our times. 6 00:00:51,264 --> 00:00:54,290 Yet it was also one man's story... 7 00:00:54,334 --> 00:00:57,792 and all the themes of our culture were there... 8 00:00:57,838 --> 00:01:00,671 heroism, will, things like that... 9 00:01:00,707 --> 00:01:04,575 but when you look back on it, it was very strange. 10 00:01:06,213 --> 00:01:08,306 Well, it is ironic... 11 00:01:08,348 --> 00:01:11,476 to see how quickly he has faded from memory... 12 00:01:11,518 --> 00:01:14,817 considering what an astounding record he made. 13 00:01:14,855 --> 00:01:17,323 He was, of course, very amusing... 14 00:01:17,357 --> 00:01:21,316 but at the same time touched a nerve in people... 15 00:01:21,361 --> 00:01:26,822 perhaps in a way in which they would prefer not to be touched. 16 00:01:26,867 --> 00:01:30,268 It certainly is a very bizarre story. 17 00:01:44,584 --> 00:01:47,144 The year is 1928. 18 00:01:47,187 --> 00:01:51,146 America, enjoying a decade of unequaled prosperity... 19 00:01:51,191 --> 00:01:52,749 has gone wild. 20 00:01:52,793 --> 00:01:54,920 The Jazz Age, it is called. 21 00:01:54,961 --> 00:01:58,624 The rhythms are syncopated. The morals are looser. 22 00:01:58,665 --> 00:02:01,293 The liquor is cheaper, when you can get it. 23 00:02:01,334 --> 00:02:06,772 It is a time of diverse heroes and madcap stunts... 24 00:02:06,807 --> 00:02:10,607 of speak-easies and flamboyant parties. 25 00:02:10,644 --> 00:02:13,442 One typical party occurs at the Long Island estate... 26 00:02:13,480 --> 00:02:16,813 of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Porter Sutton... 27 00:02:16,850 --> 00:02:19,910 socialites, patrons of the arts. 28 00:02:19,953 --> 00:02:21,420 Politicians and poets... 29 00:02:21,455 --> 00:02:24,424 rub elbows with the cream of high society. 30 00:02:24,458 --> 00:02:27,427 Present at the party is Scott Fitzgerald... 31 00:02:27,461 --> 00:02:29,793 who is to cast perspective on the twenties... 32 00:02:29,830 --> 00:02:32,128 for all future generations. 33 00:02:32,165 --> 00:02:33,496 He writes in his notebook... 34 00:02:33,533 --> 00:02:37,002 about a curious little man named Leon Selwyn, or Zelman... 35 00:02:37,036 --> 00:02:39,505 who seemed clearly to be an aristocrat... 36 00:02:39,539 --> 00:02:44,067 and extolled the very rich as he chatted with socialites. 37 00:02:44,110 --> 00:02:47,079 He spoke adoringly of Coolidge and the Republican Party... 38 00:02:47,113 --> 00:02:49,911 all in an upper-class Boston accent. 39 00:02:49,950 --> 00:02:51,815 "An hour later," writes Fitzgerald... 40 00:02:51,852 --> 00:02:54,821 "I was stunned to see the same man... 41 00:02:54,855 --> 00:02:56,823 "speaking with the kitchen help. 42 00:02:56,857 --> 00:02:59,655 "Now he claimed to be a Democrat... 43 00:02:59,693 --> 00:03:04,596 "and his accent seemed coarse, as if he were one of the crowd." 44 00:03:04,631 --> 00:03:08,158 It's the first small notice taken of Leonard Zelig. 45 00:03:08,201 --> 00:03:10,897 Florida, one year later. 46 00:03:10,937 --> 00:03:12,837 An odd incident occurs... 47 00:03:12,873 --> 00:03:15,842 at the New York Yankees' training camp. 48 00:03:15,876 --> 00:03:17,776 Journalists, anxious as always... 49 00:03:17,811 --> 00:03:21,975 to immortalize the exploits of the great home-run hitters... 50 00:03:22,015 --> 00:03:23,983 notice a strange new player... 51 00:03:24,017 --> 00:03:26,986 waiting his turn at bat after Babe Ruth. 52 00:03:27,020 --> 00:03:29,113 He's listed on the roster as Lou Zelig... 53 00:03:29,155 --> 00:03:32,647 but no one on the team has heard of him. 54 00:03:32,692 --> 00:03:33,784 Security guards are called... 55 00:03:33,827 --> 00:03:35,624 and he's escorted from the premises. 56 00:03:35,662 --> 00:03:40,725 It appears as a small item in the next day's newspaper. 57 00:03:47,707 --> 00:03:50,175 Chicago, Illinois, that same year. 58 00:03:50,210 --> 00:03:52,303 There is a private party... 59 00:03:52,345 --> 00:03:55,178 at a speak-easy on the South Side. 60 00:03:55,215 --> 00:03:57,410 People from the most respectable walks of life... 61 00:03:57,450 --> 00:04:00,613 dance and drink bathtub gin. 62 00:04:05,258 --> 00:04:09,718 Present that evening was Calvin Turner, a waiter. 63 00:04:09,763 --> 00:04:12,732 A lot of gangsters come in the place. 64 00:04:12,766 --> 00:04:15,735 They're good tippers and take care of us. 65 00:04:15,769 --> 00:04:18,135 We take care of our customers. 66 00:04:18,171 --> 00:04:21,629 On this particular night, here's a strange guy coming in. 67 00:04:21,675 --> 00:04:23,438 I'd never seen him before. 68 00:04:23,476 --> 00:04:24,602 So I asked the one or the other... 69 00:04:24,644 --> 00:04:26,441 I said, "John, you know this guy? 70 00:04:26,479 --> 00:04:28,037 "You ever seen him?" So he looks. 71 00:04:28,081 --> 00:04:29,810 "No. I ain't never seen him before. 72 00:04:29,849 --> 00:04:31,043 "I don't know who he is... 73 00:04:31,084 --> 00:04:32,779 "but I know one thing... he's a tough-looking hombre." 74 00:04:32,819 --> 00:04:34,548 So I looked over, and then... 75 00:04:34,588 --> 00:04:36,055 the next thing, the guy had disappeared. 76 00:04:36,089 --> 00:04:38,387 I don't know where he went to. 77 00:04:38,425 --> 00:04:40,893 But about this time, the music starts... 78 00:04:40,927 --> 00:04:43,054 and the band started playing. 79 00:04:43,096 --> 00:04:47,055 I looked. Here's a coloured boy over there playing trumpet. 80 00:04:47,100 --> 00:04:50,729 Man, he was playing back, and I looked at the guy... 81 00:04:50,770 --> 00:04:53,136 and I said, "He looks just like that gangster... 82 00:04:53,173 --> 00:04:58,076 "but the gangster was white, and this guy is black." 83 00:04:58,111 --> 00:05:01,137 So I don't know what's happening. 84 00:05:01,214 --> 00:05:05,412 New York City. It is several months later. 85 00:05:05,452 --> 00:05:09,388 Police are investigating the disappearance of a clerk... 86 00:05:09,422 --> 00:05:10,889 named Leonard Zelig. 87 00:05:10,924 --> 00:05:13,222 Both his landlady and his employer... 88 00:05:13,259 --> 00:05:15,056 have reported him missing. 89 00:05:15,095 --> 00:05:19,623 They tell police he was an odd little man who kept to himself. 90 00:05:19,666 --> 00:05:22,726 Two clues are found in Zelig's Greenwich Village flat. 91 00:05:22,769 --> 00:05:28,332 One, a photograph of Zelig with Eugene O'Neill... 92 00:05:28,375 --> 00:05:31,640 and one of him as Pagliacci. 93 00:05:34,714 --> 00:05:39,583 Acting on a tip, they trace his whereabouts to Chinatown... 94 00:05:39,619 --> 00:05:42,588 where, in the rear of a Chinese establishment... 95 00:05:42,622 --> 00:05:44,647 a strange-looking Oriental... 96 00:05:44,691 --> 00:05:48,149 who fits the description of Leonard Zelig is discovered. 97 00:05:48,194 --> 00:05:51,652 Suspicious, the detectives try to pull off his disguise... 98 00:05:51,698 --> 00:05:56,135 but it is not a disguise, and a fight breaks out. 99 00:05:56,169 --> 00:05:59,969 He is removed by force and taken to Manhattan Hospital. 100 00:06:00,006 --> 00:06:03,066 In the ambulance, he rants and curses... 101 00:06:03,109 --> 00:06:05,577 in what sounds like authentic Chinese. 102 00:06:05,612 --> 00:06:08,979 He is restrained with a straitjacket. 103 00:06:09,015 --> 00:06:12,473 When he emerges from the car twenty minutes later... 104 00:06:12,519 --> 00:06:17,149 incredibly, he is no longer Chinese, but Caucasian. 105 00:06:17,190 --> 00:06:20,159 Bewildered interns place him in the emergency room... 106 00:06:20,193 --> 00:06:22,161 for observation. 107 00:06:22,195 --> 00:06:25,892 At 7 a.m., Dr. Eudora Fletcher, a psychiatrist... 108 00:06:25,932 --> 00:06:29,163 makes her usual rounds. 109 00:06:29,202 --> 00:06:32,171 When I first heard about this emergency case... 110 00:06:32,205 --> 00:06:34,173 I didn't think anything peculiar... 111 00:06:34,207 --> 00:06:37,176 and when I first laid eyes on him... 112 00:06:37,210 --> 00:06:43,240 it was a bit strange because I mistook him for a doctor. 113 00:06:43,283 --> 00:06:46,878 He had a very professional demeanour about him. 114 00:06:46,920 --> 00:06:48,785 As a young psychiatrist... 115 00:06:48,822 --> 00:06:51,791 Eudora Fletcher is fascinated by Leonard Zelig. 116 00:06:51,825 --> 00:06:55,124 She convinces the conservative staff at the hospital... 117 00:06:55,161 --> 00:06:57,994 to allow her to pursue a study of the new admission. 118 00:06:58,031 --> 00:07:00,431 So, what do you do? 119 00:07:00,467 --> 00:07:02,458 Oh, me? I'm a psychiatrist. 120 00:07:03,803 --> 00:07:07,534 I work mostly with delusional paranoids. 121 00:07:07,574 --> 00:07:09,633 Tell me about it. 122 00:07:09,676 --> 00:07:11,143 There's not much to tell. 123 00:07:11,177 --> 00:07:13,645 I work mostly on the continent... 124 00:07:13,680 --> 00:07:16,649 and I've written quite a few psychoanalytic papers. 125 00:07:16,683 --> 00:07:19,481 I worked with Freud in Vienna. 126 00:07:19,519 --> 00:07:22,317 We broke over the concept of penis envy. 127 00:07:22,355 --> 00:07:26,382 Freud felt that it should be limited to women. 128 00:07:26,426 --> 00:07:30,385 It's not that he was making any sense at all. 129 00:07:30,430 --> 00:07:33,399 It was a conglomeration of psychological double-talk... 130 00:07:33,433 --> 00:07:35,401 that he had apparently heard... 131 00:07:35,435 --> 00:07:37,699 or was familiar with through reading. 132 00:07:37,737 --> 00:07:39,637 The funny thing was his delivery was quite fluid... 133 00:07:39,672 --> 00:07:42,140 and might have been convincing... 134 00:07:42,175 --> 00:07:45,372 to someone who did not know any better. 135 00:07:45,411 --> 00:07:48,380 Who was this Leonard Zelig that seemed to create... 136 00:07:48,414 --> 00:07:50,382 such diverse impressions everywhere? 137 00:07:50,416 --> 00:07:54,409 All that was known of him was that he was the son... 138 00:07:54,454 --> 00:07:57,423 of a Yiddish actor named Morris Zelig... 139 00:07:57,457 --> 00:07:59,322 whose performance as Puck... 140 00:07:59,359 --> 00:08:02,760 in the Orthodox version of "A Midsummer Night's Dream"... 141 00:08:02,796 --> 00:08:05,264 was coolly received. 142 00:08:05,298 --> 00:08:07,357 The elder Zelig's second marriage... 143 00:08:07,400 --> 00:08:11,097 is marked by constant violent quarreling, so much so... 144 00:08:11,137 --> 00:08:14,106 that although the family lives over a bowling alley... 145 00:08:14,140 --> 00:08:17,337 it's the bowling alley that complains of noise. 146 00:08:17,377 --> 00:08:21,939 As a boy, Leonard is frequently bullied by anti-Semites. 147 00:08:21,981 --> 00:08:24,950 His parents, who never take his part... 148 00:08:24,984 --> 00:08:28,977 and blame him for everything, side with the anti-Semites. 149 00:08:29,022 --> 00:08:32,958 They punish him often by locking him in a dark closet. 150 00:08:32,992 --> 00:08:34,960 When they are really angry... 151 00:08:34,994 --> 00:08:37,690 they get into the closet with him. 152 00:08:37,730 --> 00:08:40,699 On his deathbed, Morris Zelig tells his son... 153 00:08:40,733 --> 00:08:43,702 that life is a meaningless nightmare of suffering... 154 00:08:43,736 --> 00:08:48,833 and the only advice he gives him is to save string. 155 00:08:48,875 --> 00:08:51,639 Though brother Jack has a nervous breakdown... 156 00:08:51,678 --> 00:08:55,011 and sister Ruth becomes a shoplifter and alcoholic... 157 00:08:55,048 --> 00:08:58,484 Leonard Zelig appears to have adjusted to life. 158 00:08:58,518 --> 00:09:01,419 Somehow, he seems to have coped. 159 00:09:01,454 --> 00:09:06,949 And then, suddenly, increasingly strange behaviour. 160 00:09:08,728 --> 00:09:11,492 Fascinated by the Zelig phenomenon... 161 00:09:11,531 --> 00:09:14,500 Dr. Fletcher arranges a series of experiments... 162 00:09:14,534 --> 00:09:18,061 and invites the skeptical staff to observe. 163 00:09:18,104 --> 00:09:23,940 With the doctors watching, Zelig becomes a perfect psychiatrist. 164 00:09:23,977 --> 00:09:27,435 When two Frenchmen are brought in... 165 00:09:27,480 --> 00:09:31,382 Zelig assumes their characters and speaks reasonable French. 166 00:09:31,417 --> 00:09:34,386 In the company of a Chinese person... 167 00:09:34,420 --> 00:09:37,651 he begins to develop Oriental features. 168 00:09:37,690 --> 00:09:41,148 By now, word has gotten out to the press... 169 00:09:41,194 --> 00:09:44,163 and the public, thirsting for thrills and novelty... 170 00:09:44,197 --> 00:09:46,495 is immediately captivated. 171 00:09:49,502 --> 00:09:51,834 The clamour is so great... 172 00:09:51,871 --> 00:09:55,773 that Dr. Allan Sindell is forced to issue a statement. 173 00:09:55,808 --> 00:09:58,299 We're beginning to realize the dimensions... 174 00:09:58,344 --> 00:10:01,472 of what could be the scientific medical phenomenon of the age... 175 00:10:01,514 --> 00:10:03,914 and possibly of all time. 176 00:10:03,950 --> 00:10:06,282 Fresh stories roll off the press every day... 177 00:10:06,319 --> 00:10:09,345 about Zelig and his puzzling condition. 178 00:10:09,389 --> 00:10:13,348 Although the doctors claim to have the situation in hand... 179 00:10:13,393 --> 00:10:16,794 no two can agree on a diagnosis. 180 00:10:16,829 --> 00:10:19,320 I'm convinced it's glandular in nature... 181 00:10:19,365 --> 00:10:21,833 and although there's no evidence of misfunction... 182 00:10:21,868 --> 00:10:25,269 further tests will show a problem in the secretions. 183 00:10:25,305 --> 00:10:28,570 I'm certain it's something he picked up from eating Mexican food. 184 00:10:28,608 --> 00:10:31,076 This manifestation is neurological in origin. 185 00:10:31,110 --> 00:10:34,568 Now, this patient is suffering from a brain tumour... 186 00:10:34,614 --> 00:10:39,517 and I should not be surprised if within several weeks he died. 187 00:10:39,552 --> 00:10:43,511 We have not been able to locate the tumour... 188 00:10:43,556 --> 00:10:45,421 but we're still looking. 189 00:10:45,458 --> 00:10:49,019 Ironically, within two weeks' time... 190 00:10:49,062 --> 00:10:53,021 it is Dr. Birsky himself who dies of a brain tumour. 191 00:10:53,066 --> 00:10:55,830 Leonard Zelig is fine. 192 00:10:55,969 --> 00:10:59,029 Throughout the weeks of testing and speculation... 193 00:10:59,072 --> 00:11:00,972 Eudora Fletcher begins to feel... 194 00:11:01,007 --> 00:11:03,475 that the patient might be suffering... 195 00:11:03,509 --> 00:11:05,477 not from a physiological disorder... 196 00:11:05,511 --> 00:11:07,979 but from a psychological one. 197 00:11:08,014 --> 00:11:11,472 It is Zelig's unstable makeup, she suggests... 198 00:11:11,517 --> 00:11:13,485 that accounts for his metamorphoses. 199 00:11:13,519 --> 00:11:18,479 The governing board of doctors is hostile to her notion. 200 00:11:18,524 --> 00:11:20,492 They conclude that Zelig's malady... 201 00:11:20,526 --> 00:11:23,984 can be traced to poor alignment of the vertebrae. 202 00:11:24,030 --> 00:11:26,692 Tests prove them wrong... 203 00:11:26,733 --> 00:11:29,725 and cause a temporary problem for the patient. 204 00:11:31,404 --> 00:11:35,864 Now the press and public hang on every bit of news... 205 00:11:35,908 --> 00:11:38,934 thoroughly absorbed in the real-life drama. 206 00:11:38,978 --> 00:11:42,778 The continuing saga at Manhattan Hospital goes on. 207 00:11:42,815 --> 00:11:45,978 This morning, doctors report, experiments were conducted. 208 00:11:46,019 --> 00:11:49,352 Several women were placed in proximity to the subject... 209 00:11:49,389 --> 00:11:51,289 but no change occurred... 210 00:11:51,324 --> 00:11:53,121 Leading authorities to conclude... 211 00:11:53,159 --> 00:11:54,990 that the phenomenon does not occur with women. 212 00:11:55,028 --> 00:11:59,362 Doctors will experiment with a midget and a chicken. 213 00:12:05,905 --> 00:12:08,305 Leonard Zelig continues to astound scientists... 214 00:12:08,341 --> 00:12:11,401 at New York's Manhattan Hospital... 215 00:12:11,444 --> 00:12:13,810 where numerous tests have led nowhere... 216 00:12:13,846 --> 00:12:16,576 in determining the nature of this astonishing manifestation. 217 00:12:16,616 --> 00:12:19,585 He is confronted by two overweight men... 218 00:12:19,619 --> 00:12:22,087 at the request of the doctors. 219 00:12:22,121 --> 00:12:24,589 As the men discuss their obesity... 220 00:12:24,624 --> 00:12:27,092 an initially reticent Zelig joins in... 221 00:12:27,126 --> 00:12:30,493 swelling himself to a miraculous 250 pounds. 222 00:12:30,530 --> 00:12:33,727 Next, in the presence of two Negro men... 223 00:12:33,766 --> 00:12:36,997 Zelig rapidly becomes one himself. 224 00:12:37,036 --> 00:12:39,732 What will they think of next? 225 00:12:39,772 --> 00:12:44,675 Meanwhile, Americans all over have their own reactions. 226 00:12:44,710 --> 00:12:48,373 I wish I could be Lenny Zelig, the changing man. 227 00:12:48,414 --> 00:12:50,211 I'd be different people. 228 00:12:50,249 --> 00:12:52,513 Someday my wishes will come true. 229 00:12:52,552 --> 00:12:57,012 Leonard Zelig is one of the finest gentlemen... 230 00:12:57,056 --> 00:12:59,524 in the United States of America. 231 00:12:59,559 --> 00:13:03,086 He is the cat's pajamas. 232 00:13:03,129 --> 00:13:05,029 Trying a new approach... 233 00:13:05,064 --> 00:13:08,124 Dr. Fletcher places the subject under hypnosis. 234 00:13:08,167 --> 00:13:12,365 Tell me why you assume the characteristics... 235 00:13:12,405 --> 00:13:14,373 of the person you're with. 236 00:13:14,407 --> 00:13:19,970 -It's safe. -What do you mean safe? 237 00:13:20,012 --> 00:13:22,981 Safe... 238 00:13:23,015 --> 00:13:26,473 to be like the others. 239 00:13:26,519 --> 00:13:30,478 You want to be safe? 240 00:13:30,523 --> 00:13:33,492 I want to be liked. 241 00:13:35,128 --> 00:13:36,595 Probing Zelig's unconscious... 242 00:13:36,629 --> 00:13:39,598 Dr. Fletcher gradually puts together the pieces... 243 00:13:39,632 --> 00:13:42,760 of Zelig's behavioural puzzle. 244 00:13:42,802 --> 00:13:45,270 Dividing her time between the hospital... 245 00:13:45,304 --> 00:13:49,400 and the 42nd-Street Library, she writes her report. 246 00:13:49,442 --> 00:13:51,910 A closed meeting of doctors listens... 247 00:13:51,944 --> 00:13:56,506 as Dr. Fletcher describes Zelig as a human chameleon. 248 00:13:56,549 --> 00:13:59,518 Like the lizard that is endowed by nature... 249 00:13:59,552 --> 00:14:01,452 with a marvellous protective device... 250 00:14:01,487 --> 00:14:03,921 that enables it to change colour... 251 00:14:03,956 --> 00:14:06,925 and blend in with its immediate surrounding... 252 00:14:06,959 --> 00:14:09,018 Zelig, too, protects himself... 253 00:14:09,061 --> 00:14:12,189 by becoming whoever he is around. 254 00:14:12,231 --> 00:14:15,200 The doctors listen, and their reaction is skeptical. 255 00:14:15,234 --> 00:14:17,464 "Impossible," they claim. "Preposterous." 256 00:14:17,503 --> 00:14:20,472 "If he's a lizard," quips one doctor... 257 00:14:20,506 --> 00:14:23,475 "then we shouldn't spend hospital money feeding him... 258 00:14:23,509 --> 00:14:26,034 "but simply catch him some flies." 259 00:14:35,521 --> 00:14:38,490 Well, we knew we had a good story this time... 260 00:14:38,524 --> 00:14:41,015 because it had everything in it. 261 00:14:41,060 --> 00:14:43,528 It had romance. It had suspense. 262 00:14:43,563 --> 00:14:46,532 This fellow Zelig, he grew up poor. 263 00:14:46,566 --> 00:14:48,534 My city editor said, "Ted... 264 00:14:48,568 --> 00:14:53,028 "we want this story on page one every day." 265 00:14:53,072 --> 00:14:57,031 In those days, you'd do anything to sell papers. 266 00:14:57,076 --> 00:15:00,045 To get a story, you'd jazz it up... 267 00:15:00,079 --> 00:15:02,479 you'd exaggerate, play with the truth. 268 00:15:02,515 --> 00:15:05,313 Here was a story. It was a natural. 269 00:15:05,351 --> 00:15:08,149 You told the truth, and it sold papers. 270 00:15:08,187 --> 00:15:10,018 It never happened before. 271 00:15:10,056 --> 00:15:12,024 Overnight, Leonard Zelig has become... 272 00:15:12,058 --> 00:15:14,652 the main topic of conversation everywhere... 273 00:15:14,694 --> 00:15:17,663 and is discussed with amusement and wonder. 274 00:15:17,697 --> 00:15:21,155 No social gathering is without its Leonard Zelig joke... 275 00:15:21,200 --> 00:15:24,169 and in a decade of popular dance crazes... 276 00:15:24,203 --> 00:15:26,103 a new one sweeps the nation. 277 00:16:39,145 --> 00:16:42,114 What's brown, white, and yellow with four eyes? 278 00:16:42,148 --> 00:16:45,174 Leonard Zelig at the League of Nations. 279 00:16:45,217 --> 00:16:46,684 Not everyone, however... 280 00:16:46,719 --> 00:16:49,244 was entranced by the human chameleon... 281 00:16:49,288 --> 00:16:51,153 and amongst the fanatics... 282 00:16:51,190 --> 00:16:54,091 he was a handy symbol of iniquity. 283 00:16:54,126 --> 00:16:58,495 This creature personifies Capitalist man. 284 00:16:58,531 --> 00:17:03,992 A creature who takes many forms to achieve ends... 285 00:17:04,036 --> 00:17:09,531 the exploitation of the workers by deception. 286 00:17:11,243 --> 00:17:14,269 To the Ku Klux Klan, Zelig... 287 00:17:14,313 --> 00:17:17,282 a Jew who was able to transform himself... 288 00:17:17,316 --> 00:17:20,843 into a Negro or Indian, was a triple threat. 289 00:17:20,886 --> 00:17:22,945 Meanwhile, Dr. Fletcher... 290 00:17:22,988 --> 00:17:25,456 certain that her findings are correct... 291 00:17:25,491 --> 00:17:27,959 begs for time with her patient... 292 00:17:27,993 --> 00:17:30,723 to put her theories into operation. 293 00:17:30,763 --> 00:17:33,323 You recall the first time you began... 294 00:17:33,366 --> 00:17:36,961 behaving like the people you were around? 295 00:17:37,002 --> 00:17:40,460 In school, some very bright people... 296 00:17:40,506 --> 00:17:43,475 - asked me if I read "Moby Dick." - Yeah? 297 00:17:45,010 --> 00:17:48,468 I was ashamed to say I never read it. 298 00:17:48,514 --> 00:17:49,981 - And you pretended? - Yeah. 299 00:17:51,517 --> 00:17:54,975 When did the changes begin happening automatically? 300 00:17:55,020 --> 00:17:57,011 Years ago. 301 00:17:57,056 --> 00:17:58,523 Saint Patrick's Day. 302 00:17:58,557 --> 00:18:01,424 I wandered into a bar. 303 00:18:01,460 --> 00:18:04,486 Wasn't wearing green. 304 00:18:04,530 --> 00:18:06,498 They made remarks. 305 00:18:06,532 --> 00:18:08,500 I turned Irish. 306 00:18:08,534 --> 00:18:11,002 You told them you were Irish? 307 00:18:11,036 --> 00:18:14,995 My hair turned red. My nose turned up. 308 00:18:15,040 --> 00:18:18,066 Spoke about the great potato famine... 309 00:18:18,110 --> 00:18:21,375 and the little people. 310 00:18:21,414 --> 00:18:24,383 We do not agree with Dr. Fletcher's ideas. 311 00:18:24,417 --> 00:18:27,944 We believe those ideas are pipe dreams. 312 00:18:27,987 --> 00:18:30,956 We believe that any change in Zelig's condition... 313 00:18:30,990 --> 00:18:33,458 is going to be brought about... 314 00:18:33,492 --> 00:18:34,959 through certain experimental drugs... 315 00:18:34,994 --> 00:18:38,794 which although risky, have been known to work wonders. 316 00:18:38,831 --> 00:18:41,891 Zelig is treated with the experimental drug... 317 00:18:41,934 --> 00:18:44,061 somadril hydrate. 318 00:18:44,103 --> 00:18:46,071 He undergoes severe mood changes... 319 00:18:46,105 --> 00:18:50,906 and for several days will not come off the wall. 320 00:18:50,943 --> 00:18:53,002 Then suddenly... 321 00:18:53,045 --> 00:18:56,503 as Dr. Fletcher is beginning to make some progress... 322 00:18:56,549 --> 00:18:59,017 the question of Zelig's fate takes a new twist... 323 00:18:59,051 --> 00:19:02,953 as his half sister Ruth shocks everyone by removing him from the hospital. 324 00:19:02,988 --> 00:19:06,947 "He can be better cared for at home," she tells the doctors. 325 00:19:06,992 --> 00:19:09,452 He will be looked after, she explains,... 325 00:19:09,452 --> 00:19:12,452 by her and her dubious looking lover Martin Geist... 326 00:19:12,497 --> 00:19:15,456 a businessman and ex-carnival promoter. 327 00:19:15,501 --> 00:19:18,470 There is very little resistance amongst the doctors... 328 00:19:18,504 --> 00:19:22,406 who are relieved to be rid of the frustrating case. 329 00:19:22,441 --> 00:19:26,400 Only Dr. Fletcher cares about Zelig as a human being. 330 00:19:26,445 --> 00:19:29,278 She insists he desperately needs special care... 331 00:19:29,315 --> 00:19:31,180 but it is to no avail. 332 00:19:31,217 --> 00:19:35,176 No. No one was questioning her legal right to Zelig. 333 00:19:35,221 --> 00:19:38,190 She was his half sister and his guardian... 334 00:19:38,224 --> 00:19:41,250 but she had a strange boyfriend called Geist. 335 00:19:41,293 --> 00:19:45,252 He'd been in jail for real-estate fraud. 336 00:19:45,297 --> 00:19:48,164 He was selling the same piece of property... 337 00:19:48,200 --> 00:19:50,168 to a lot of people. 338 00:19:50,202 --> 00:19:53,137 A Delaware Congressman bought it twice. 339 00:19:53,172 --> 00:19:55,140 The crowds that line the roads... 340 00:19:55,174 --> 00:19:59,634 to glimpse the human chameleon tie up traffic for days. 341 00:19:59,678 --> 00:20:02,670 He's a sight to behold for tourists and children. 342 00:20:02,715 --> 00:20:05,946 People from all over the country fight for space... 343 00:20:05,985 --> 00:20:08,453 to peek at this new wonderment. 344 00:20:17,396 --> 00:20:19,364 Selling mementos while her brother... 345 00:20:19,398 --> 00:20:21,628 is allowed to be on exhibition... 346 00:20:21,667 --> 00:20:25,398 is only the beginning for Ruth Zelig and Martin Geist. 347 00:20:25,437 --> 00:20:28,304 Admission is charged for twice-daily demonstrations... 348 00:20:28,340 --> 00:20:30,467 of Leonard's stunning prowess. 349 00:20:30,509 --> 00:20:32,477 He does not disappoint... 350 00:20:32,511 --> 00:20:35,480 changing appearance over and over upon demand. 351 00:20:35,514 --> 00:20:39,473 Overnight, he has become an attraction, a novelty... 352 00:20:39,518 --> 00:20:42,146 a freak. 353 00:20:42,187 --> 00:20:46,317 In this 1935 film based on the life of Zelig... 354 00:20:46,358 --> 00:20:49,350 called "The Changing Man"... 355 00:20:49,395 --> 00:20:51,363 the atmosphere is best summed up. 356 00:20:51,397 --> 00:20:54,366 We can't give up custody of Leonard. 357 00:20:54,400 --> 00:20:56,868 I know, if given the chance, I can cure him. 358 00:20:56,902 --> 00:21:00,065 It's no use. Even our attorney says it's hopeless. 359 00:21:00,105 --> 00:21:03,040 Really Dr. Fletcher... may I call you Eudora? 360 00:21:03,075 --> 00:21:05,043 I tell you somewhere behind that vacuous face... 361 00:21:05,077 --> 00:21:06,544 that zombielike stare... 362 00:21:06,579 --> 00:21:10,447 is a real human being, and I can bring it out. 363 00:21:10,482 --> 00:21:11,642 How? 364 00:21:11,684 --> 00:21:13,618 I'll think up some new way, some technique. 365 00:21:13,652 --> 00:21:17,247 Whatever it is, it will have to be personal. 366 00:21:17,289 --> 00:21:19,757 There's not much I can do legally. I'll try but... 367 00:21:19,792 --> 00:21:22,260 They don't care about him. They'll exploit him. 368 00:21:22,294 --> 00:21:25,263 All they see in him is a chance to make more money. 369 00:21:25,297 --> 00:21:28,198 Look at this. Already they're selling this Leonard Zelig doll. 370 00:21:28,233 --> 00:21:30,201 The film did not exaggerate. 371 00:21:30,235 --> 00:21:33,693 There weren't only Leonard Zelig pens and lucky charms... 372 00:21:33,739 --> 00:21:36,708 but clocks and toys, watches and books... 373 00:21:36,742 --> 00:21:39,973 and a famous Leonard Zelig doll. 374 00:21:40,012 --> 00:21:41,604 There were aprons, chameleon-shaped earmuffs... 375 00:21:41,647 --> 00:21:43,979 and a popular Leonard Zelig game. 376 00:22:28,894 --> 00:22:32,022 There were many popular songs... 377 00:22:32,064 --> 00:22:35,864 inspired by Leonard Zelig, tunes that swept the nation. 378 00:22:59,191 --> 00:23:01,989 In addition to the products and endorsements... 379 00:23:02,027 --> 00:23:04,393 there are the endless exhibitions. 380 00:23:04,430 --> 00:23:06,830 In Hollywood, he's a great favourite... 381 00:23:06,865 --> 00:23:09,493 and is offered a film contract. 382 00:23:09,535 --> 00:23:12,504 Clara Bow invites him for a private weekend... 383 00:23:12,538 --> 00:23:15,302 and tells him to bring all his personalities. 384 00:23:15,340 --> 00:23:19,140 In Chicago, he meets heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey... 385 00:23:19,178 --> 00:23:22,147 who clowns with Zelig at his training camp. 386 00:23:22,181 --> 00:23:24,479 In Washington, D.C., he is introduced... 387 00:23:24,516 --> 00:23:27,542 to both Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover. 388 00:23:27,586 --> 00:23:30,555 In France, he is hailed as Le Lezard. 389 00:23:30,589 --> 00:23:34,150 He is the toast of the Parisian music halls. 390 00:23:34,193 --> 00:23:37,162 His performance endears him to leading French intellectuals... 391 00:23:37,196 --> 00:23:40,996 who see in him a symbol for everything. 392 00:23:41,033 --> 00:23:43,661 His transformation into a rabbi... 393 00:23:43,702 --> 00:23:46,170 is so realistic that certain Frenchmen... 394 00:23:46,205 --> 00:23:49,936 suggest he be sent to Devil's Island. 395 00:23:52,911 --> 00:23:54,435 At the Folies Berg�re... 396 00:23:54,480 --> 00:23:57,938 Josephine Baker does her version of the Chameleon Dance... 397 00:23:57,983 --> 00:23:59,883 and later tells friends... 398 00:23:59,918 --> 00:24:03,718 she finds Zelig amazing, but a little lost. 399 00:24:03,756 --> 00:24:07,021 Everyone used to be at my place-- 400 00:24:07,059 --> 00:24:09,527 everyone who was someone-- 401 00:24:09,561 --> 00:24:15,022 and occasionally someone would bring Zelig in-- 402 00:24:15,067 --> 00:24:16,534 Leonard in. 403 00:24:16,568 --> 00:24:21,028 Cole Porter was fascinated by Leonard... 404 00:24:21,073 --> 00:24:24,531 and he once wrote a line in a song... 405 00:24:24,576 --> 00:24:30,037 "You're the tops. You're Leonard Zelig." 406 00:24:30,082 --> 00:24:34,746 But then he couldn't find anything to rhyme with Zelig. 407 00:24:40,859 --> 00:24:43,419 I'm flying high 408 00:24:43,462 --> 00:24:46,659 'Cause I've got a feeling I'm falling 409 00:24:46,698 --> 00:24:53,399 Falling for nobody else but you 410 00:24:53,438 --> 00:24:55,201 You caught my eye 411 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:58,767 Now I got a feeling I'm falling 412 00:24:58,811 --> 00:25:03,339 Show me that ring, and I'll jump right through 413 00:25:03,382 --> 00:25:06,977 I used to travel single, oh 414 00:25:07,019 --> 00:25:10,284 We chanced to mingle, oh 415 00:25:10,322 --> 00:25:14,850 Now I'm a-tingle over you 416 00:25:14,893 --> 00:25:18,488 Hey, Mr. Zelig, stand by 417 00:25:18,530 --> 00:25:21,829 'Cause I've got a feeling I'm falling 418 00:25:21,867 --> 00:25:26,497 Falling for nobody else but you 419 00:25:26,538 --> 00:25:27,937 Wow! 420 00:25:27,973 --> 00:25:30,441 Though the shows and parties... 421 00:25:30,475 --> 00:25:33,967 keep Zelig's sister and her lover rich and amused... 422 00:25:34,012 --> 00:25:36,480 Zelig's own existence is a nonexistence. 423 00:25:36,515 --> 00:25:37,982 Devoid of personality... 424 00:25:38,016 --> 00:25:42,476 his human qualities long since lost in the shuffle of life... 425 00:25:42,521 --> 00:25:45,490 he sits alone, quietly staring into space... 426 00:25:45,524 --> 00:25:50,484 a cipher, a nonperson, a performing freak. 427 00:25:50,529 --> 00:25:53,987 He who wanted only to fit in, to belong... 428 00:25:54,032 --> 00:25:57,991 to go unseen by his enemies and be loved... 429 00:25:58,036 --> 00:26:01,437 neither fits in nor belongs... 430 00:26:01,473 --> 00:26:05,739 is supervised by enemies, and remains uncared for. 431 00:26:05,777 --> 00:26:10,305 The board at the hospital has all but forgotten Zelig. 432 00:26:10,349 --> 00:26:13,841 Only Dr. Fletcher continues to fight for his custody. 433 00:26:13,886 --> 00:26:17,413 The court turns her final appeal down. 434 00:26:17,456 --> 00:26:19,424 Throughout her valiant legal battle... 435 00:26:19,458 --> 00:26:23,656 she is frequently in the company of her attorney Charles Koslow. 436 00:26:23,695 --> 00:26:25,993 He falls in love with her... 437 00:26:26,031 --> 00:26:29,091 and presses for her hand in marriage. 438 00:26:29,134 --> 00:26:30,601 She is ambivalent. 439 00:26:30,636 --> 00:26:33,104 Reluctantly, she is beginning to abandon... 440 00:26:33,138 --> 00:26:36,699 all hope of recovering Leonard Zelig. 441 00:26:36,742 --> 00:26:41,543 That summer, Geist has booked them in Spain. 442 00:26:41,580 --> 00:26:45,016 It is the last leg of a European tour... 443 00:26:45,050 --> 00:26:47,041 that has been wildly successful. 444 00:26:47,085 --> 00:26:50,054 Relations between Martin Geist and Ruth Zelig... 445 00:26:50,088 --> 00:26:52,056 have grown strained. 446 00:26:52,090 --> 00:26:55,059 They have become bored with one another... 447 00:26:55,093 --> 00:26:56,560 and quarrel frequently. 448 00:26:56,595 --> 00:27:00,053 The situation grows worse when she meets Luis Martinez... 449 00:27:00,098 --> 00:27:03,192 a mediocre and cowardly bullfighter... 450 00:27:03,235 --> 00:27:05,226 with whom she falls in love. 451 00:27:06,438 --> 00:27:09,407 Though he wishes to impress Ruth Zelig... 452 00:27:09,441 --> 00:27:12,740 Martinez displays his usual panic in the arena. 453 00:27:12,778 --> 00:27:15,076 Good fortune is with him, however... 454 00:27:15,113 --> 00:27:17,479 as the bull gives himself a brain concussion. 455 00:27:17,516 --> 00:27:19,984 Martinez takes credit for the kill... 456 00:27:20,018 --> 00:27:22,316 and cutting off the bull's ear... 457 00:27:22,354 --> 00:27:25,152 presents it to his lover with great bravado. 458 00:27:25,190 --> 00:27:27,488 That evening, in a jealous rage... 459 00:27:27,526 --> 00:27:30,393 Martin Geist returns to his hotel room... 460 00:27:30,429 --> 00:27:32,522 and confronts Ruth Zelig. 461 00:27:32,564 --> 00:27:35,624 He demands that she give him the ear. 462 00:27:35,667 --> 00:27:37,032 She refuses. 463 00:27:37,069 --> 00:27:40,038 Geist insists upon possession of the ear. 464 00:27:40,072 --> 00:27:42,836 They quarrel furiously, and Martinez is discovered... 465 00:27:42,874 --> 00:27:45,001 hiding in the closet. 466 00:27:45,043 --> 00:27:47,011 Geist pulls a revolver and shoots him. 467 00:27:47,045 --> 00:27:50,503 He turns the gun on Zelig's half sister and kills her. 468 00:27:50,549 --> 00:27:52,847 Then he takes his own life. 469 00:27:52,884 --> 00:27:55,512 In an orgy of jealous violence... 470 00:27:55,554 --> 00:27:58,546 Leonard Zelig's life is turned upside down. 471 00:28:14,006 --> 00:28:18,204 At first, the news reverberates around the world. 472 00:28:18,243 --> 00:28:20,473 Then, just as quickly... 473 00:28:20,512 --> 00:28:23,379 the thrill-hungry public becomes apathetic. 474 00:28:23,415 --> 00:28:26,009 Fresh scandals appear and make headlines. 475 00:28:26,051 --> 00:28:29,020 Events in the Jazz Age move too rapidly... 476 00:28:29,054 --> 00:28:31,113 Like Red Grange. 477 00:28:31,156 --> 00:28:35,650 A population glutted with distractions is quick to forget. 478 00:28:35,694 --> 00:28:38,254 The twenties come to a crashing climax... 479 00:28:38,296 --> 00:28:41,288 and still, Leonard Zelig is nowhere to be found. 480 00:28:46,171 --> 00:28:51,040 Dr. Eudora Fletcher searches in vain to locate him. 481 00:28:51,076 --> 00:28:53,544 When several leads prove disappointing... 482 00:28:53,578 --> 00:28:56,206 she gives up, discouraged. 483 00:28:56,248 --> 00:28:58,045 I felt it was a shame. 484 00:28:58,083 --> 00:29:00,051 Here was this unique case... 485 00:29:00,085 --> 00:29:02,986 that I could make my reputation on. 486 00:29:03,021 --> 00:29:05,990 Not that I knew how to cure him... 487 00:29:06,024 --> 00:29:08,993 but if I could have him alone... 488 00:29:09,027 --> 00:29:12,485 and feel my way and be innovative and creative... 489 00:29:12,531 --> 00:29:15,500 I felt that I could change his life... 490 00:29:15,534 --> 00:29:18,162 if I only had the chance. 491 00:29:26,578 --> 00:29:30,514 300,000 of the faithful are waiting before St. Peter's... 492 00:29:30,549 --> 00:29:32,881 for the appearance of Pope Pius Xl. 493 00:29:32,918 --> 00:29:35,011 Borne on the shoulders of twelve attendants... 494 00:29:35,053 --> 00:29:38,022 the seat of the Adjustortoria carrying the Holy Father... 495 00:29:38,056 --> 00:29:40,024 is drawn out to the central balcony... 496 00:29:40,058 --> 00:29:43,425 where he bestows his blessings on all the world. 497 00:29:43,462 --> 00:29:46,022 This is the first time this ritual has been performed... 498 00:29:46,064 --> 00:29:51,024 in 63 years and brings to a climax on Easter Sunday... 499 00:29:51,069 --> 00:29:53,037 the religious ceremonies of Holy Week. 500 00:29:53,071 --> 00:29:56,529 What's this? A commotion next to the Papal Father? 501 00:29:56,575 --> 00:29:58,543 Somebody doesn't belong up there. 502 00:29:58,577 --> 00:30:00,545 The guards are summoned amidst chaos... 503 00:30:00,579 --> 00:30:02,547 as His Holiness Pope Pius Xl... 504 00:30:02,581 --> 00:30:05,550 tries to swat the intruder with his sacred decree. 505 00:30:05,584 --> 00:30:07,552 The faithful can't believe it. 506 00:30:07,586 --> 00:30:09,713 It is, of course, Zelig. 507 00:30:09,754 --> 00:30:12,222 He's returned to the United States... 508 00:30:12,257 --> 00:30:14,691 by Italian authorities... 509 00:30:14,726 --> 00:30:17,820 and readmitted to Manhattan Hospital. 510 00:30:17,863 --> 00:30:21,026 I welcome this opportunity to treat Leonard Zelig... 511 00:30:21,066 --> 00:30:25,526 now that he is back as a ward of the hospital. 512 00:30:25,570 --> 00:30:29,028 I'm grateful the board has given me this chance. 513 00:30:29,074 --> 00:30:32,043 I sincerely hope to return him to society... 514 00:30:32,077 --> 00:30:34,045 a useful, self-possessed citizen... 515 00:30:34,079 --> 00:30:38,038 no longer a curiosity with no life of his own. 516 00:30:38,083 --> 00:30:41,883 Dr. Fletcher has no time now to think of marriage. 517 00:30:41,920 --> 00:30:44,787 All her attention must be devoted to Leonard Zelig. 518 00:30:44,823 --> 00:30:48,759 Her plan is to bring him to her country home. 519 00:30:48,793 --> 00:30:52,593 She will set up a neutral environment away from society. 520 00:30:52,631 --> 00:30:57,091 She will begin searching for some new way to treat him... 521 00:30:57,135 --> 00:30:59,933 in the hopes of penetrating his unique malady. 522 00:30:59,971 --> 00:31:03,031 Aware of the significance of her work... 523 00:31:03,074 --> 00:31:06,043 Eudora Fletcher arranges to keep a filmed record... 524 00:31:06,077 --> 00:31:08,045 of the proceedings. 525 00:31:08,079 --> 00:31:12,038 For this, she contacts her first cousin Paul Deghuee... 526 00:31:12,083 --> 00:31:15,780 an inventor and part-time photographer. 527 00:31:15,820 --> 00:31:20,587 She said, "I want to make a record of this case... 528 00:31:20,625 --> 00:31:23,594 "for future generations and the world of science. 529 00:31:23,628 --> 00:31:25,596 "I want you to keep the camera very quiet." 530 00:31:25,630 --> 00:31:30,090 I said, "Why not just take notes and write it up?" 531 00:31:30,135 --> 00:31:32,103 She said, "Paul, when a man... 532 00:31:32,137 --> 00:31:36,096 "changes his physical appearance, you want to see it. 533 00:31:36,141 --> 00:31:38,109 "You can't read about it. 534 00:31:38,143 --> 00:31:40,839 "Besides which, I am planning to make history." 535 00:31:40,879 --> 00:31:43,973 The white room is carefully arranged... 536 00:31:44,015 --> 00:31:45,983 for maximum serenity. 537 00:31:46,017 --> 00:31:49,475 It is a small study in Dr. Fletcher's house... 538 00:31:49,521 --> 00:31:51,489 sparsely furnished. 539 00:31:51,523 --> 00:31:55,482 Clumsy photographic lights are nailed to the wall... 540 00:31:55,527 --> 00:31:59,190 to provide sufficient illumination. 541 00:31:59,231 --> 00:32:02,758 Microphones are hidden in specially selected places. 542 00:32:02,801 --> 00:32:06,066 through a pane of glass... 543 00:32:06,104 --> 00:32:08,231 which renders it relatively unobtrusive. 544 00:32:08,273 --> 00:32:11,106 The noise of the motor is a problem. 545 00:32:11,142 --> 00:32:15,602 This is muffled with a blanket and anything else handy. 546 00:32:15,647 --> 00:32:17,615 From this cramped vantage point... 547 00:32:17,649 --> 00:32:19,514 photographer Paul Deghuee will record... 548 00:32:19,551 --> 00:32:22,019 the famous White Room Sessions-- 549 00:32:22,053 --> 00:32:26,285 a remarkable document in the history of psychotherapy. 550 00:32:26,324 --> 00:32:28,053 By today's standards... 551 00:32:28,093 --> 00:32:32,052 the White Room Sessions would seem very primitive... 552 00:32:32,097 --> 00:32:35,555 and yet they were really quite effective... 553 00:32:35,600 --> 00:32:39,058 in developing a very strong personal relation... 554 00:32:39,104 --> 00:32:41,095 between doctor and patient. 555 00:32:41,139 --> 00:32:44,575 The question whether Zelig was a psychotic... 556 00:32:44,609 --> 00:32:47,578 or merely extremely neurotic... 557 00:32:47,612 --> 00:32:51,070 was a question that was endlessly discussed... 558 00:32:51,116 --> 00:32:53,084 among us doctors. 559 00:32:53,118 --> 00:32:58,078 I myself felt that his feelings were really... 560 00:32:58,123 --> 00:33:01,024 not all that different from the normal... 561 00:33:01,059 --> 00:33:02,686 maybe what one would call... 562 00:33:02,727 --> 00:33:05,025 the well-adjusted normal person... 563 00:33:05,063 --> 00:33:07,531 only carried to an extreme degree... 564 00:33:07,565 --> 00:33:09,533 to an extreme extent. 565 00:33:09,567 --> 00:33:12,536 I myself felt that one could... 566 00:33:12,570 --> 00:33:16,438 really think of him as the ultimate conformist. 567 00:33:20,078 --> 00:33:23,070 Leonard, do you know why you're here? 568 00:33:25,083 --> 00:33:27,051 To discuss psychiatry, right? 569 00:33:27,085 --> 00:33:29,053 You're a doctor? 570 00:33:29,087 --> 00:33:31,055 Yes, I am. 571 00:33:31,089 --> 00:33:33,557 Perhaps you've read my latest paper... 572 00:33:33,591 --> 00:33:35,559 on delusional paranoia. 573 00:33:35,593 --> 00:33:38,562 Turns out the entire thing is mental. 574 00:33:38,596 --> 00:33:44,057 Suppose I tell you you're not a doctor. 575 00:33:44,102 --> 00:33:49,563 I would say that you're making a joke. 576 00:33:49,607 --> 00:33:52,576 Incidentally, is it always so bright in here? 577 00:33:52,610 --> 00:33:56,569 I'm recording these sessions on film, if you don't mind. 578 00:33:56,614 --> 00:33:58,081 There's somebody behind there, right? 579 00:33:58,116 --> 00:34:01,017 That's right. That's a camera. 580 00:34:02,554 --> 00:34:05,523 Why don't we start with simple reality. 581 00:34:05,557 --> 00:34:07,525 Leonard, you're not a doctor. 582 00:34:09,060 --> 00:34:12,029 You're a patient, and I'm the doctor. 583 00:34:12,063 --> 00:34:17,524 I wouldn't tell it to too many people if I were you. 584 00:34:17,569 --> 00:34:20,037 Leonard, you're not a doctor. 585 00:34:20,071 --> 00:34:23,040 Is she going to be all right? 586 00:34:23,074 --> 00:34:26,532 I've got to get back to town. 587 00:34:26,578 --> 00:34:29,046 Really. I have an interesting case-- 588 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,548 treating two sets of Siamese twins... 589 00:34:31,583 --> 00:34:33,050 with split personalities. 590 00:34:33,084 --> 00:34:34,813 I'm getting paid by eight people. 591 00:34:34,853 --> 00:34:38,254 "The first week's sessions did not go too well..." 592 00:34:38,289 --> 00:34:40,757 writes Dr. Fletcher in her diary. 593 00:34:40,792 --> 00:34:42,760 "Leonard identifies with me... 594 00:34:42,794 --> 00:34:45,763 "and is convinced that he is a doctor. 595 00:34:45,797 --> 00:34:47,856 "He is guarded and suspicious. 596 00:34:47,899 --> 00:34:50,766 "There is something very appealing about him, too. 597 00:34:50,802 --> 00:34:52,770 "He's quick-witted and energetic. 598 00:34:52,804 --> 00:34:56,604 "Perhaps it is his very helplessness that moves me. 599 00:34:56,641 --> 00:35:00,702 "I must keep flexible and play the situation by ear." 600 00:35:02,247 --> 00:35:04,238 How are you today, Leonard? 601 00:35:05,750 --> 00:35:10,210 Fine. I got to get back to town soon. 602 00:35:10,255 --> 00:35:12,723 I teach a course... 603 00:35:12,757 --> 00:35:16,215 at the Psychiatric Institute on masturbation. 604 00:35:16,261 --> 00:35:17,728 I see. 605 00:35:17,762 --> 00:35:19,730 I'm a doctor, and l-- 606 00:35:19,764 --> 00:35:21,732 Guilt-related masturbation. 607 00:35:21,766 --> 00:35:24,735 Not guilt-related. I teach advanced. 608 00:35:24,769 --> 00:35:27,738 I'm quite a respected doctor there. 609 00:35:27,772 --> 00:35:30,240 Let your eyes follow this pen. 610 00:35:30,275 --> 00:35:33,904 Just let yourself breathe deeply. 611 00:35:33,945 --> 00:35:35,572 Relax. 612 00:35:35,613 --> 00:35:37,740 You're trying to hypnotize me. 613 00:35:37,782 --> 00:35:40,751 -Do you mind? -Yes, I mind. I'm a doctor. 614 00:35:40,785 --> 00:35:42,753 You're not a doctor. 615 00:35:42,787 --> 00:35:44,755 I am a doctor. 616 00:35:44,789 --> 00:35:46,256 Just relax. 617 00:35:46,291 --> 00:35:48,259 I can't. I'm due back in town. 618 00:35:48,293 --> 00:35:50,261 I have this masturbation class. 619 00:35:50,295 --> 00:35:53,230 If I'm not there, they start without me. 620 00:35:53,264 --> 00:35:55,289 As the weeks go by... 621 00:35:55,333 --> 00:35:58,302 Dr. Fletcher grows more and more frustrated. 622 00:35:58,336 --> 00:36:01,237 "Leonard continues to insist he is a doctor... 623 00:36:01,272 --> 00:36:04,730 "and even refuses to let me hypnotize him," she writes. 624 00:36:04,776 --> 00:36:07,745 "I believe his experiences of the past year... 625 00:36:07,779 --> 00:36:10,577 "have made him more defensive than ever. 626 00:36:10,615 --> 00:36:11,980 "It is discouraging." 627 00:36:12,016 --> 00:36:13,916 She was under great pressure. 628 00:36:13,952 --> 00:36:16,921 You could tell. She was moody and nervous. 629 00:36:16,955 --> 00:36:21,688 He was fine, napping, sitting in his chair reading. 630 00:36:21,726 --> 00:36:24,695 He referred to himself as Dr. Zelig. 631 00:36:24,729 --> 00:36:27,254 He was reading books on psychiatry. 632 00:36:27,298 --> 00:36:30,756 I told her to get away for a day and relax. 633 00:36:30,802 --> 00:36:33,270 The strain was becoming too much. 634 00:36:33,304 --> 00:36:35,033 Leaving Zelig alone... 635 00:36:35,073 --> 00:36:37,598 Dr. Fletcher takes Paul Deghuee's advice... 636 00:36:37,642 --> 00:36:41,772 and she and her fianc� spend some hours off, relaxing. 637 00:36:41,813 --> 00:36:45,874 They go to Broadway, then to a well-known nightclub... 638 00:36:45,917 --> 00:36:48,283 where, despite a lively stage show... 639 00:36:48,319 --> 00:36:50,787 Dr. Fletcher is distracted and uneasy. 640 00:36:50,822 --> 00:36:54,724 She is unable to think of anything but her patient. 641 00:36:54,759 --> 00:36:57,785 The atmosphere with her fianc� Koslow is awkward. 642 00:36:57,829 --> 00:37:02,232 He is put off by her total obsession with Zelig. 643 00:37:02,267 --> 00:37:05,725 Ironically, it is in the noisy, smoke-filled atmosphere... 644 00:37:05,770 --> 00:37:09,001 of the nightclub that Eudora Fletcher... 645 00:37:09,040 --> 00:37:12,237 is struck by a brilliant and innovative plan... 646 00:37:12,277 --> 00:37:15,269 that will create a major breakthrough in the case. 647 00:37:22,787 --> 00:37:25,255 Dr. Zelig. 648 00:37:25,290 --> 00:37:29,249 I wonder if you could help me with a problem. 649 00:37:29,294 --> 00:37:31,262 I could certainly try. 650 00:37:31,296 --> 00:37:33,764 Of course, we can't promise anything. 651 00:37:33,798 --> 00:37:39,259 Last week, I was with a group of fairly erudite people... 652 00:37:39,304 --> 00:37:42,273 who were discussing the novel "Moby Dick." 653 00:37:42,307 --> 00:37:47,301 I was afraid to admit I hadn't read it, so I lied. 654 00:37:50,315 --> 00:37:53,773 I want so badly to be liked... 655 00:37:53,818 --> 00:37:57,811 to be like other people so I don't stand out. 656 00:38:01,259 --> 00:38:03,227 That's natural. 657 00:38:03,261 --> 00:38:06,753 I go to such extreme lengths to blend in. 658 00:38:10,268 --> 00:38:15,729 You're a doctor. You should know how to handle that. 659 00:38:15,773 --> 00:38:18,742 But the truth of the matter is... 660 00:38:18,776 --> 00:38:22,268 I'm not an actual doctor. 661 00:38:24,782 --> 00:38:26,773 You're not? 662 00:38:28,286 --> 00:38:31,744 I've been pretending to be a doctor... 663 00:38:31,789 --> 00:38:34,257 to fit in with my friends. 664 00:38:34,292 --> 00:38:36,283 You see, they're doctors. 665 00:38:41,299 --> 00:38:42,789 That's something. 666 00:38:44,302 --> 00:38:48,261 But you're a doctor, and you can help me. 667 00:38:48,306 --> 00:38:50,274 You have to help me. 668 00:38:50,308 --> 00:38:53,766 I don't feel that well, actually. 669 00:38:53,811 --> 00:38:57,770 My whole life's just been a lie. 670 00:38:57,815 --> 00:39:02,218 I've been posing as one thing after another. 671 00:39:02,253 --> 00:39:04,221 You need help, lady. 672 00:39:04,255 --> 00:39:07,713 Last night, I dreamt I was falling into fire. 673 00:39:07,759 --> 00:39:09,727 What does that mean? 674 00:39:09,761 --> 00:39:11,729 That's terrible. I don't know. 675 00:39:11,763 --> 00:39:16,530 Please doctor, I know I'm a complicated patient. 676 00:39:16,567 --> 00:39:18,728 -I don't feel that well. -What am I suffering from? 677 00:39:18,770 --> 00:39:21,739 How should I know? I'm not a doctor. 678 00:39:21,773 --> 00:39:23,240 You're not? 679 00:39:23,274 --> 00:39:26,243 -No. Am l? -Who are you? 680 00:39:26,277 --> 00:39:29,246 What do you mean? These are tough questions. 681 00:39:29,280 --> 00:39:30,747 Leonard Zelig? 682 00:39:30,782 --> 00:39:32,750 Definitely. Who is he? 683 00:39:32,784 --> 00:39:34,251 You. 684 00:39:34,285 --> 00:39:36,253 I'm nobody. I'm nothing. 685 00:39:36,287 --> 00:39:38,278 I--catch me. I'm falling. 686 00:39:39,624 --> 00:39:41,421 Playing on Zelig's identity disorder... 687 00:39:41,459 --> 00:39:43,427 Dr. Fletcher has manipulated him... 688 00:39:43,461 --> 00:39:45,258 into momentary disorientation. 689 00:39:45,296 --> 00:39:49,790 With his guard lowered, she quickly puts him under hypnosis. 690 00:39:49,867 --> 00:39:51,732 Using posthypnotic suggestion... 691 00:39:51,769 --> 00:39:55,205 she will now be able to induce a trance at will. 692 00:39:55,239 --> 00:39:58,231 My brother beat me. 693 00:39:58,276 --> 00:40:02,235 My sister beat my brother. 694 00:40:02,280 --> 00:40:07,741 My father beat my sister and my brother and me. 695 00:40:07,785 --> 00:40:11,243 My mother beat my father... 696 00:40:11,289 --> 00:40:15,248 and my sister and me and my brother. 697 00:40:15,293 --> 00:40:18,262 The neighbours beat our family. 698 00:40:18,296 --> 00:40:25,395 People down the block beat the neighbours and our family. 699 00:40:25,436 --> 00:40:28,269 I'm twelve years old. 700 00:40:28,306 --> 00:40:31,275 I run into a synagogue. 701 00:40:31,309 --> 00:40:35,769 I ask the rabbi the meaning of life. 702 00:40:35,813 --> 00:40:39,772 He tells me the meaning of life... 703 00:40:39,817 --> 00:40:42,786 but he tells it to me in Hebrew. 704 00:40:42,820 --> 00:40:46,278 I don't understand Hebrew. 705 00:40:46,324 --> 00:40:51,057 Then he wants to charge me $600 for Hebrew lessons. 706 00:40:51,095 --> 00:40:55,794 Dr. Fletcher's therapy consists of a two-pronged attack. 707 00:40:55,833 --> 00:40:59,792 In the trance state, the personality will be... 708 00:40:59,837 --> 00:41:01,737 deeply probed and then restructured. 709 00:41:01,773 --> 00:41:03,741 In the conscious state... 710 00:41:03,775 --> 00:41:06,243 she will provide love and affection... 711 00:41:06,277 --> 00:41:08,268 unconditional positive regard. 712 00:41:32,303 --> 00:41:34,271 You will be completely honest. 713 00:41:34,305 --> 00:41:36,273 You're in a deep trance. 714 00:41:36,307 --> 00:41:41,267 You will become not who you think I want you to be... 715 00:41:41,312 --> 00:41:43,280 but you will be yourself. 716 00:41:43,314 --> 00:41:46,306 Now, how do you feel about it here? 717 00:41:48,820 --> 00:41:51,288 It's the worst. 718 00:41:51,322 --> 00:41:53,790 I hate the country. 719 00:41:53,825 --> 00:41:57,283 I hate the grass and the mosquitoes. 720 00:41:57,328 --> 00:41:59,796 And cooking-- 721 00:41:59,831 --> 00:42:02,231 your cooking is terrible. 722 00:42:02,266 --> 00:42:04,234 Your pancakes-- 723 00:42:04,268 --> 00:42:08,728 I dump them in the garbage when you're not looking. 724 00:42:10,274 --> 00:42:13,243 And the jokes you try and tell... 725 00:42:13,277 --> 00:42:17,737 when you think you're amusing are long and pointless. 726 00:42:17,782 --> 00:42:20,250 There's no end to them. 727 00:42:20,284 --> 00:42:22,252 I see. 728 00:42:22,286 --> 00:42:24,254 And what else? 729 00:42:24,288 --> 00:42:28,281 I want to go to bed with you. 730 00:42:31,295 --> 00:42:34,264 Well, that surprises me. 731 00:42:34,298 --> 00:42:37,267 I didn't think you liked me very much. 732 00:42:37,301 --> 00:42:39,292 I love you. 733 00:42:41,305 --> 00:42:43,773 You do? 734 00:42:43,808 --> 00:42:45,776 You're very sweet... 735 00:42:45,810 --> 00:42:50,270 because you're not as clever as you think you are. 736 00:42:50,314 --> 00:42:56,776 You're all mixed up and nervous, and you're the worst cook. 737 00:42:56,821 --> 00:42:59,289 Those pancakes... 738 00:42:59,323 --> 00:43:01,723 I love you. 739 00:43:01,759 --> 00:43:05,217 I want to take care of you. 740 00:43:05,263 --> 00:43:07,254 No more pancakes. 741 00:43:15,773 --> 00:43:17,570 I started out... 742 00:43:17,742 --> 00:43:20,734 by trying to use Leonard to make my reputation. 743 00:43:20,778 --> 00:43:24,737 Then I found I had very strong feelings for him. 744 00:43:24,782 --> 00:43:27,250 I never thought I was attractive. 745 00:43:27,285 --> 00:43:29,253 I never had a real romance. 746 00:43:29,287 --> 00:43:32,256 Charles Koslow was the type of man... 747 00:43:32,290 --> 00:43:34,781 my mother felt I should marry. 748 00:43:39,130 --> 00:43:42,759 Feeling more confident every day with her patient... 749 00:43:42,800 --> 00:43:45,769 Dr. Fletcher takes him for a cautious outing-- 750 00:43:45,803 --> 00:43:50,103 an afternoon at her sister's house in nearby Teaneck. 751 00:43:50,141 --> 00:43:52,268 Meryl Fletcher is an aviatrix... 752 00:43:52,310 --> 00:43:54,278 a fine professional pilot. 753 00:43:54,312 --> 00:43:57,281 Eudora Fletcher is an amateur pilot... 754 00:43:57,315 --> 00:43:59,783 and the afternoon is spent relaxing... 755 00:43:59,817 --> 00:44:02,684 and retelling old flying experiences. 756 00:44:04,255 --> 00:44:06,223 As the weeks pass... 757 00:44:06,257 --> 00:44:09,715 Zelig is encouraged to open up more and more... 758 00:44:09,760 --> 00:44:11,728 to give his own opinions. 759 00:44:11,762 --> 00:44:14,731 What was guarded at first soon becomes expansive. 760 00:44:14,765 --> 00:44:19,293 I hated my stepmother. I don't care who knows it. 761 00:44:21,305 --> 00:44:22,772 I love baseball. 762 00:44:22,807 --> 00:44:25,275 You know, it doesn't have to mean anything to me. 763 00:44:25,309 --> 00:44:27,800 It's just very beautiful to watch. 764 00:44:29,947 --> 00:44:34,281 I'm a Democrat. I always was a Democrat. 765 00:44:35,820 --> 00:44:40,780 Is it OK if I don't agree with you about that recording? 766 00:44:40,825 --> 00:44:42,793 Of course. 767 00:44:42,827 --> 00:44:46,957 Brahms is just always too melodramatic for me. 768 00:44:46,998 --> 00:44:49,796 You have to be your own person... 769 00:44:49,834 --> 00:44:52,302 and make your own moral choices... 770 00:44:52,336 --> 00:44:55,305 even when they do require real courage. 771 00:44:55,339 --> 00:44:59,503 Otherwise, you're like a robot or a lizard. 772 00:44:59,543 --> 00:45:02,239 Are you really going to marry that lawyer? 773 00:45:02,279 --> 00:45:04,770 I would much rather you didn't. 774 00:45:06,283 --> 00:45:07,750 I don't agree. 775 00:45:07,785 --> 00:45:10,777 I think this guy Mussolini is a loser. 776 00:45:12,790 --> 00:45:16,556 Are we ever going to make love? 777 00:45:16,594 --> 00:45:18,221 It has been three months... 778 00:45:18,262 --> 00:45:21,231 and the board wishes to examine the patient. 779 00:45:21,265 --> 00:45:25,224 Dr. Fletcher says Zelig isn't ready to leave the premises. 780 00:45:25,269 --> 00:45:27,737 The doctors agree to visit him there. 781 00:45:27,772 --> 00:45:30,741 The date is set-- four days hence. 782 00:45:30,775 --> 00:45:32,743 If progress is insufficient... 783 00:45:32,777 --> 00:45:34,768 she will be removed from the case. 784 00:45:36,847 --> 00:45:40,305 I was very nervous because in his waking state... 785 00:45:40,351 --> 00:45:43,320 he never remembered anything from his trance state... 786 00:45:43,354 --> 00:45:45,822 and I wondered if there could be some way... 787 00:45:45,856 --> 00:45:48,324 of locking these two things together. 788 00:45:48,359 --> 00:45:50,827 And then I also was worried... 789 00:45:50,861 --> 00:45:53,830 that if he was with strong personalities... 790 00:45:53,864 --> 00:45:56,059 he might lose his personality. 791 00:45:56,100 --> 00:45:58,398 Sunday at noon, the doctors arrive. 792 00:45:58,436 --> 00:46:00,904 They are greeted by Eudora Fletcher... 793 00:46:00,938 --> 00:46:04,897 and Leonard Zelig and are shown around the grounds. 794 00:46:04,942 --> 00:46:07,911 Though Dr. Fletcher is tense and alert... 795 00:46:07,945 --> 00:46:10,914 Leonard Zelig seems calm and at ease. 796 00:46:10,948 --> 00:46:14,406 Despite the fact that he is surrounded by physicians... 797 00:46:14,452 --> 00:46:16,920 he does not turn into one. 798 00:46:16,954 --> 00:46:19,923 The encounter appears to be a resounding success... 799 00:46:19,957 --> 00:46:22,425 when Dr. Henry Mayerson comments innocently... 800 00:46:22,460 --> 00:46:26,419 about the weather, saying that it is a nice day. 801 00:46:26,464 --> 00:46:29,922 Zelig tells Dr. Mayerson that he does not agree... 802 00:46:29,967 --> 00:46:32,435 that it is a nice day. 803 00:46:32,470 --> 00:46:34,438 Dr. Mayerson is taken aback... 804 00:46:34,472 --> 00:46:36,872 at the firmness of Zelig's conviction. 805 00:46:36,907 --> 00:46:41,867 He points out that the sun is shining and that it is mild. 806 00:46:41,912 --> 00:46:45,370 Zelig, trained to voice his own personal opinions fearlessly... 807 00:46:45,416 --> 00:46:47,384 is too aggressive. 808 00:46:47,418 --> 00:46:51,377 He has been molded too far in the other direction. 809 00:46:51,422 --> 00:46:53,390 He has become over-opinionated... 810 00:46:53,424 --> 00:46:57,360 and cannot brook any disagreement with his own views. 811 00:46:57,394 --> 00:47:00,921 I'd taken him too far in the other direction. 812 00:47:00,965 --> 00:47:03,934 He struck Dr. Mayerson and several board members... 813 00:47:03,968 --> 00:47:05,435 with a rake. 814 00:47:05,469 --> 00:47:07,437 This wasn't what we wanted... 815 00:47:07,471 --> 00:47:09,837 yet I felt I'd accomplished something. 816 00:47:09,874 --> 00:47:12,900 If I could have him two more weeks... 817 00:47:12,943 --> 00:47:15,411 I could do some fine-tuning... 818 00:47:15,446 --> 00:47:18,540 and turn Leonard Zelig back into his own man. 819 00:47:29,026 --> 00:47:32,393 Dr. Eudora Nesbit Fletcher, the hero-- 820 00:47:32,429 --> 00:47:34,397 or should we say, heroine-- of the hour. 821 00:47:34,431 --> 00:47:36,831 The beautiful and brilliant young psychiatrist... 822 00:47:36,867 --> 00:47:39,335 never lost faith in her conviction... 823 00:47:39,370 --> 00:47:41,338 that Leonard Zelig, the human chameleon... 824 00:47:41,372 --> 00:47:43,340 was suffering from a mental disorder. 825 00:47:43,374 --> 00:47:44,807 Working with her cousin... 826 00:47:44,842 --> 00:47:47,436 cameraman Paul Deghuee, the doctor managed... 827 00:47:47,478 --> 00:47:49,446 to keep a vital record of the proceedings... 828 00:47:49,480 --> 00:47:52,847 including rare footage of Zelig hypnotized. 829 00:47:52,883 --> 00:47:55,909 The patient and healer have become fast friends... 830 00:47:55,953 --> 00:47:57,921 and enjoy one another's company... 831 00:47:57,955 --> 00:48:00,924 even when she's not working on him. 832 00:48:00,958 --> 00:48:03,927 The result of maintaining a minority opinion... 833 00:48:03,961 --> 00:48:06,054 is a resounding success for psychiatry. 834 00:48:06,096 --> 00:48:09,259 Who says women are just good for sewing? 835 00:48:09,300 --> 00:48:10,699 Now it's on to City Hall... 836 00:48:10,734 --> 00:48:12,702 where the town's newest celebrities... 837 00:48:12,736 --> 00:48:14,431 are given the key to the city. 838 00:48:14,471 --> 00:48:16,371 We're honoured to present... 839 00:48:16,407 --> 00:48:19,274 this key to New York City to you. 840 00:48:21,912 --> 00:48:24,881 Jimmy Walker did want to be here... 841 00:48:24,915 --> 00:48:29,409 and sing "Leonard the Lizard," but he was just too busy. 842 00:48:32,289 --> 00:48:34,382 After city hall, Eudora Fletcher... 843 00:48:34,425 --> 00:48:36,825 the beautiful genius who cured Zelig... 844 00:48:36,860 --> 00:48:38,828 of his science-defying condition... 845 00:48:38,862 --> 00:48:42,821 is honoured by fellow scientists at New York's Waldorf-Astoria. 846 00:48:42,866 --> 00:48:45,835 Present are luminaries from all over the world... 847 00:48:45,869 --> 00:48:48,838 not just in the field of psychiatry... 848 00:48:48,872 --> 00:48:51,841 but physics, biology, mathematics, and you name it. 849 00:48:51,875 --> 00:48:54,673 Here she is exchanging theories with Nils Andersen... 850 00:48:54,712 --> 00:48:57,203 the father of modern blood disease. 851 00:48:57,248 --> 00:48:59,773 Later in the week, Dr. Fletcher is again honoured... 852 00:48:59,817 --> 00:49:02,786 as she gets to christen her first ship. 853 00:49:02,820 --> 00:49:05,721 Quite a success story for a little girl... 854 00:49:05,756 --> 00:49:07,314 from the backwoods. 855 00:49:11,295 --> 00:49:12,762 I'm speaking to you... 856 00:49:12,796 --> 00:49:15,356 from the home of Mrs. Catherine Fletcher. 857 00:49:15,399 --> 00:49:18,368 She's the mother of Dr. Eudora Fletcher... 858 00:49:18,402 --> 00:49:21,371 the famous psychiatrist in the news these days. 859 00:49:21,405 --> 00:49:25,364 I'll be asking Mrs. Fletcher-- to begin with... 860 00:49:25,409 --> 00:49:28,378 to tell us something about what it's like... 861 00:49:28,412 --> 00:49:31,381 to raise a medical genius. 862 00:49:31,415 --> 00:49:34,384 I might ask you about the many sacrifices... 863 00:49:34,418 --> 00:49:37,819 You've made to put your daughter through medical school. 864 00:49:37,855 --> 00:49:40,323 And put you speak right into the microphones, please. 865 00:49:40,357 --> 00:49:42,416 Sacrifices, we had none. 866 00:49:42,459 --> 00:49:45,826 John was a stockbroker. We had plenty of money... 867 00:49:45,863 --> 00:49:48,331 and I came from a wealthy Philadelphia family. 868 00:49:48,365 --> 00:49:52,165 I'm sure that your daughter always wanted to be a doctor... 869 00:49:52,202 --> 00:49:54,329 ever since she could remember. 870 00:49:54,371 --> 00:49:56,339 I don't think so. 871 00:49:56,373 --> 00:49:59,831 I always thought she wanted to be a flier... 872 00:49:59,877 --> 00:50:02,846 Like her sister Meryl, and raise a family... 873 00:50:02,880 --> 00:50:04,848 but she was a very moody child. 874 00:50:04,882 --> 00:50:07,851 But a mother always dreams for her child... 875 00:50:07,885 --> 00:50:10,353 to have the success your daughter has. 876 00:50:10,387 --> 00:50:12,855 She was a very difficult girl. 877 00:50:12,890 --> 00:50:14,858 Tell me about your husband. 878 00:50:14,892 --> 00:50:16,359 I understand that he is a simple businessman. 879 00:50:16,393 --> 00:50:18,361 He must be so thrilled and pleased... 880 00:50:18,395 --> 00:50:22,354 to have his daughter achieve such recognition. 881 00:50:22,399 --> 00:50:25,857 John had problems--depression. He drank. 882 00:50:25,903 --> 00:50:28,872 Well, Mrs. Fletcher, thank you so much... 883 00:50:28,906 --> 00:50:31,739 for speaking with us today. 884 00:50:39,750 --> 00:50:42,275 Here at San Simeon, glorious dreamland... 885 00:50:42,319 --> 00:50:44,913 of newspaper mogul William Randolph Hearst... 886 00:50:44,955 --> 00:50:49,016 celebrities from all walks of society sun or play. 887 00:50:49,059 --> 00:50:51,960 There's Marie Dressler with Mr. Hearst. 888 00:50:51,995 --> 00:50:54,964 Always a popular guest at San Simeon... 889 00:50:54,998 --> 00:50:58,957 Miss Dressler accepts a flower from an ardent admirer. 890 00:50:59,002 --> 00:51:01,971 Along with her is Marion Davies. 891 00:51:02,005 --> 00:51:05,463 When she works, Miss Davies is always dead serious... 892 00:51:05,509 --> 00:51:07,977 But here, at this fabulous playground... 893 00:51:08,011 --> 00:51:11,003 She shows us her fun side. 894 00:51:11,048 --> 00:51:14,609 There she is with you-know-who--Charlie Chaplin... 895 00:51:14,651 --> 00:51:16,710 always kidding. 896 00:51:16,754 --> 00:51:19,882 Although New York is 3,000 miles away... 897 00:51:19,923 --> 00:51:23,791 Jimmy Walker appears through Mr. Hearst's enchanted gateway. 898 00:51:23,827 --> 00:51:27,388 Another New Yorker is Leonard Zelig... 899 00:51:27,431 --> 00:51:29,399 here shown clowning... 900 00:51:29,433 --> 00:51:31,901 with everybody's favourite cowboy--Tom Mix. 901 00:51:31,935 --> 00:51:33,903 Won't Tony be jealous? 902 00:51:33,937 --> 00:51:36,667 Tony is Tom's horse... 903 00:51:36,707 --> 00:51:39,642 and we always thought they went everywhere together. 904 00:51:39,676 --> 00:51:41,940 There's that fellow Chaplin again... 905 00:51:41,979 --> 00:51:44,539 this time with Adolphe Menjou. 906 00:51:44,581 --> 00:51:48,813 There's Claire Windsor and Delores del Rio... 907 00:51:48,852 --> 00:51:51,446 and a very charming Eudora Fletcher... 908 00:51:51,488 --> 00:51:54,457 chatting with Hollywood's newest dancing sensation... 909 00:51:54,491 --> 00:51:56,459 James Cagney. 910 00:51:56,493 --> 00:51:58,961 And what have we here? 911 00:51:58,996 --> 00:52:02,090 Only a beautiful lady named Carole Lombard. 912 00:52:02,132 --> 00:52:04,498 There's Dr. Fletcher and Leonard Zelig... 913 00:52:04,535 --> 00:52:08,995 hitting a few with Bobby Jones on Mr. Hearst's golf course. 914 00:52:09,039 --> 00:52:12,998 Unless Leonard can go back to his old chameleon personality... 915 00:52:13,043 --> 00:52:18,003 and turn into a golf pro, I'd bet my money on Bobby. 916 00:52:18,048 --> 00:52:21,040 But who cares, if they're having fun? 917 00:52:26,356 --> 00:52:31,419 Do you want to give the kids of this country some advice? 918 00:52:31,462 --> 00:52:34,920 I sure do. Kids, you got to be yourself. 919 00:52:34,965 --> 00:52:36,865 Don't act like anybody else... 920 00:52:36,900 --> 00:52:39,801 because you think they have all the answers. 921 00:52:39,837 --> 00:52:43,933 Be your own man, speak up, say what's on your mind. 922 00:52:43,974 --> 00:52:46,943 Maybe they can't do that in foreign countries... 923 00:52:46,977 --> 00:52:48,945 but that's the American way. 924 00:52:48,979 --> 00:52:52,938 I used to be a member of the reptile family... 925 00:52:52,983 --> 00:52:54,974 but I'm not anymore. 926 00:53:39,696 --> 00:53:43,132 Zelig, no longer a chameleon, is his own man. 927 00:53:43,166 --> 00:53:46,624 His point of view on politics, art, and love... 928 00:53:46,670 --> 00:53:49,639 is honest and direct. 929 00:53:49,673 --> 00:53:53,131 Though his taste is described by many as lowbrow... 930 00:53:53,176 --> 00:53:55,144 it is his own. 931 00:53:55,178 --> 00:53:58,147 He is finally an individual, a human being. 932 00:53:58,181 --> 00:54:01,150 He no longer gives up his own identity... 933 00:54:01,184 --> 00:54:04,676 to be a safe part of his surroundings. 934 00:54:04,721 --> 00:54:06,689 His taste wasn't terrible. 935 00:54:06,723 --> 00:54:09,692 He was a man who preferred watching baseball... 936 00:54:09,726 --> 00:54:11,694 to reading "Moby Dick"... 937 00:54:11,728 --> 00:54:15,186 and that got him off on the wrong foot... 938 00:54:15,232 --> 00:54:17,200 or so the legend goes. 939 00:54:17,234 --> 00:54:19,702 It was much more a matter of symbolism. 940 00:54:19,736 --> 00:54:22,705 To the Marxists he was one thing. 941 00:54:22,739 --> 00:54:25,207 The Catholic Church never forgave him... 942 00:54:25,242 --> 00:54:26,709 for the Vatican incident. 943 00:54:26,743 --> 00:54:28,210 The American people... 944 00:54:28,245 --> 00:54:31,703 in the throes of the Depression as they were... 945 00:54:31,748 --> 00:54:34,717 found in him a symbol of possibility... 946 00:54:34,751 --> 00:54:37,151 of self-improvement and self-fulfillment. 947 00:54:37,187 --> 00:54:40,156 And of course, the Freudians had a ball. 948 00:54:40,190 --> 00:54:43,648 They could interpret him in any way they pleased. 949 00:54:43,694 --> 00:54:45,662 It was all symbolism... 950 00:54:45,696 --> 00:54:49,757 but no two intellectuals agreed about what it meant. 951 00:54:49,800 --> 00:54:52,360 I don't know if you can call it a triumph of psychotherapy. 952 00:54:52,402 --> 00:54:55,371 It's more like a triumph of aesthetic instincts. 953 00:54:55,405 --> 00:54:57,873 Dr. Fletcher's techniques didn't owe anything... 954 00:54:57,908 --> 00:55:00,376 to then-current schools of therapy... 955 00:55:00,410 --> 00:55:03,868 but she sensed what was needed and provided it. 956 00:55:03,914 --> 00:55:05,882 That was, in its way... 957 00:55:05,916 --> 00:55:07,941 a remarkable creative accomplishment. 958 00:55:07,985 --> 00:55:10,545 When I think about it, it seems to me his story... 959 00:55:10,587 --> 00:55:14,045 reflected a lot of the Jewish experience in America-- 960 00:55:14,091 --> 00:55:18,551 the great urge to push in and to find one's place... 961 00:55:18,595 --> 00:55:21,564 and then to assimilate into the culture. 962 00:55:21,598 --> 00:55:24,260 He wanted to assimilate like crazy. 963 00:55:31,942 --> 00:55:35,070 Eudora Fletcher's life has also changed... 964 00:55:35,112 --> 00:55:36,579 from this experience. 965 00:55:36,613 --> 00:55:39,582 For her, fame and recognition are empty rewards... 966 00:55:39,616 --> 00:55:43,074 and do not live up to the adolescent fantasies... 967 00:55:43,120 --> 00:55:45,350 that prompted her ambition. 968 00:55:45,389 --> 00:55:48,324 She and her patient have fallen in love... 969 00:55:48,358 --> 00:55:51,327 and it is no surprise when she forsakes... 970 00:55:51,361 --> 00:55:53,329 the upwardly-mobile attorney Koslow... 971 00:55:53,363 --> 00:55:56,526 and announces wedding plans with Zelig. 972 00:56:50,887 --> 00:56:54,983 It was wonderful to see my sister and Leonard together. 973 00:56:55,025 --> 00:56:58,483 She drew strength from him. 974 00:56:58,528 --> 00:57:02,988 And they were so much in love with each other... 975 00:57:03,033 --> 00:57:07,493 and she looked happier than she had in years. 976 00:57:07,537 --> 00:57:12,998 I remember they decided to get married in the spring... 977 00:57:13,043 --> 00:57:17,036 and then, of course, the roof fell in. 978 00:57:18,615 --> 00:57:20,640 Two weeks before the wedding... 979 00:57:20,684 --> 00:57:23,983 an ex-showgirl named Lita Fox comes forth... 980 00:57:24,020 --> 00:57:27,478 and claims that she is married to Zelig. 981 00:57:27,524 --> 00:57:30,982 She also claims to have had his child. 982 00:57:31,027 --> 00:57:34,019 It is an immediate scandal. 983 00:57:37,167 --> 00:57:39,226 We were married a year ago. 984 00:57:39,269 --> 00:57:43,729 He said he was an actor. He sounded just like one. 985 00:57:43,774 --> 00:57:45,742 I'm in show business, too. 986 00:57:45,776 --> 00:57:48,745 We drove to Baltimore, and we were married... 987 00:57:48,779 --> 00:57:51,509 and I have a license to prove it. 988 00:57:51,548 --> 00:57:55,006 He had married her while under a different personality. 989 00:57:55,051 --> 00:57:57,519 When she read of the plans... 990 00:57:57,554 --> 00:57:59,522 for his forthcoming wedding to Eudora Fletcher... 991 00:57:59,556 --> 00:58:03,083 she was mortified and decided to take legal action. 992 00:58:03,126 --> 00:58:06,027 Zelig says he will fight it in court... 993 00:58:06,062 --> 00:58:10,328 but public opinion begins subtly to shift away from him. 994 00:58:10,367 --> 00:58:14,497 Clever attorneys portray Lita Fox as an abandoned woman. 995 00:58:14,538 --> 00:58:18,975 The child is neglected, poor, and fatherless. 996 00:58:19,009 --> 00:58:21,944 Zelig has sold his life story to Hollywood... 997 00:58:21,978 --> 00:58:24,378 for a large sum of money. 998 00:58:24,414 --> 00:58:26,439 When the scandal breaks... 999 00:58:26,483 --> 00:58:28,951 the studio demands its money back. 1000 00:58:28,985 --> 00:58:32,284 Zelig can only return half. The rest has been spent. 1001 00:58:32,322 --> 00:58:35,758 Outraged, the studio gives him half his life back. 1002 00:58:35,792 --> 00:58:37,760 They keep the best moments. 1003 00:58:37,794 --> 00:58:42,254 He is left with only his sleeping hours and mealtimes. 1004 00:58:42,299 --> 00:58:46,793 Zelig is shaken by the scandal, but it is only the beginning. 1005 00:58:46,837 --> 00:58:48,828 Now another woman steps forward. 1006 00:58:48,872 --> 00:58:53,002 Helen Gray, a salesgirl from a Wisconsin gift shop... 1007 00:58:53,043 --> 00:58:56,501 claims that Zelig is the father of her twins. 1008 00:58:56,546 --> 00:59:01,506 She tells lawyers that he passed himself off as a fur trapper. 1009 00:59:01,551 --> 00:59:04,019 Zelig has no recollection, but admits... 1010 00:59:04,054 --> 00:59:08,013 it could have happened during one of his spells. 1011 00:59:08,058 --> 00:59:10,185 It's the signal for the floodgates to open. 1012 00:59:10,227 --> 00:59:13,822 He married me at the First Church of Harlem. 1013 00:59:13,864 --> 00:59:16,662 He told me he was the brother of Duke Ellington. 1014 00:59:16,700 --> 00:59:20,192 He was the guy who smashed my car up. 1015 00:59:20,237 --> 00:59:22,205 It was brand-new. 1016 00:59:22,239 --> 00:59:25,208 Then he backed up over my mother's wrist. 1017 00:59:25,242 --> 00:59:30,202 She's elderly and uses her wrist a lot. 1018 00:59:30,247 --> 00:59:33,182 He painted my house a disgusting colour. 1019 00:59:33,216 --> 00:59:35,684 He said he was a painter. 1020 00:59:35,719 --> 00:59:38,449 I couldn't believe the results. 1021 00:59:38,488 --> 00:59:41,082 Then he disappeared. 1022 00:59:41,124 --> 00:59:43,115 That Zelig could be responsible... 1023 00:59:43,159 --> 00:59:46,128 for the behaviour of each personality he assumed... 1024 00:59:46,162 --> 00:59:48,824 means dozens of lawsuits. 1025 00:59:48,865 --> 00:59:51,299 He is sued for bigamy, adultery... 1026 00:59:51,334 --> 00:59:54,303 automobile accidents, plagiarism, household damages... 1027 00:59:54,337 --> 00:59:56,965 negligence, property damages... 1028 00:59:57,007 --> 01:00:00,568 and performing unnecessary dental extractions. 1029 01:00:00,610 --> 01:00:03,636 I would like to apologize to everyone. 1030 01:00:03,680 --> 01:00:06,649 I'm awfully sorry for marrying all those women. 1031 01:00:06,683 --> 01:00:08,651 It just--I don't know. 1032 01:00:08,685 --> 01:00:11,654 It just seemed like the thing to do. 1033 01:00:11,688 --> 01:00:14,657 To the gentleman whose appendix I took out... 1034 01:00:14,691 --> 01:00:17,159 I don't know what to say. 1035 01:00:17,193 --> 01:00:19,161 If it's any consolation... 1036 01:00:19,195 --> 01:00:21,663 I may still have it somewhere around the house. 1037 01:00:21,698 --> 01:00:26,158 My deepest apology goes to the Trokman family in Detroit. 1038 01:00:26,202 --> 01:00:29,660 I never delivered a baby before in my life... 1039 01:00:29,706 --> 01:00:35,110 and I just thought that ice tongs was the way to do it. 1040 01:00:35,145 --> 01:00:38,945 Thriving mercilessly on loopholes and technicalities... 1041 01:00:38,982 --> 01:00:42,611 the American legal profession has a field day. 1042 01:00:42,652 --> 01:00:44,620 Zelig is branded a criminal. 1043 01:00:44,654 --> 01:00:47,623 Despite Dr. Fletcher's insistence that he cannot be... 1044 01:00:47,657 --> 01:00:51,286 held responsible for actions while in his chameleon state... 1045 01:00:51,328 --> 01:00:52,761 it is no use. 1046 01:00:52,796 --> 01:00:56,926 Leonard Zelig sets a bad moral influence. 1047 01:00:56,967 --> 01:00:59,936 America is a moral country. 1048 01:00:59,970 --> 01:01:03,770 It's a God-fearing country. 1049 01:01:03,807 --> 01:01:10,508 We don't condone scandals-- scandals of fraud and polygamy. 1050 01:01:10,547 --> 01:01:17,282 In keeping with a pure society, I say, lynch the little Hebe. 1051 01:01:18,355 --> 01:01:20,323 Throughout the humiliating ordeal... 1052 01:01:20,357 --> 01:01:24,987 Eudora Fletcher stands by the man she loves, valiantly. 1053 01:01:25,028 --> 01:01:26,996 Privately, she tells friends... 1054 01:01:27,030 --> 01:01:29,999 that she is worried about Zelig's emotional condition... 1055 01:01:30,033 --> 01:01:33,002 which seems to her to be deteriorating... 1056 01:01:33,036 --> 01:01:36,369 under the weight of conservative moral opinion. 1057 01:01:36,406 --> 01:01:39,307 In public, he tries to keep up an appearance of composure... 1058 01:01:39,342 --> 01:01:41,242 but it is increasingly difficult. 1059 01:01:41,277 --> 01:01:44,371 It is clear that he is coming apart... 1060 01:01:44,414 --> 01:01:47,872 when he and Eudora dine at a Greek restaurant... 1061 01:01:47,917 --> 01:01:52,980 and in the midst of the meal, Zelig begins to turn Greek. 1062 01:01:57,994 --> 01:02:00,963 He longs desperately to be liked once again... 1063 01:02:00,997 --> 01:02:03,932 to be accepted, to fit in. 1064 01:02:03,967 --> 01:02:07,232 Public clamour over his morality reaches a fever pitch... 1065 01:02:07,270 --> 01:02:10,239 and on the eve of his sentencing... 1066 01:02:10,273 --> 01:02:12,503 Leonard Zelig vanishes. 1067 01:02:19,449 --> 01:02:23,180 This is Chief Inspector of Police Thomas Dowd... 1068 01:02:23,219 --> 01:02:25,779 with a national broadcasting news break. 1069 01:02:25,822 --> 01:02:27,790 Leonard Zelig is missing. 1070 01:02:27,824 --> 01:02:30,292 On the eve of his sentencing... 1071 01:02:30,326 --> 01:02:33,420 for an assortment of crimes and misdemeanours... 1072 01:02:33,463 --> 01:02:36,261 ranging from polygamy to fraud, he has disappeared. 1073 01:02:36,299 --> 01:02:38,267 We are searching for clues... 1074 01:02:38,301 --> 01:02:40,769 and would appreciate speaking with anyone... 1075 01:02:40,804 --> 01:02:44,604 who might have any information leading to his apprehension. 1076 01:02:44,641 --> 01:02:47,576 My sister was just shattered. 1077 01:02:47,610 --> 01:02:52,570 She tried to keep up a calm front... 1078 01:02:52,615 --> 01:02:55,083 but she was just too upset. 1079 01:02:55,118 --> 01:02:57,086 And she wasn't a person... 1080 01:02:57,120 --> 01:03:00,089 who usually displayed emotion easily... 1081 01:03:00,123 --> 01:03:02,614 except where Leonard was concerned. 1082 01:03:05,862 --> 01:03:09,093 Dr. Fletcher and the police confer daily. 1083 01:03:09,132 --> 01:03:11,100 Together they make public appeals... 1084 01:03:11,134 --> 01:03:14,103 to anyone who might know of his whereabouts. 1085 01:03:14,137 --> 01:03:16,605 Apart from several crank telephone calls... 1086 01:03:16,639 --> 01:03:18,470 there is little response. 1087 01:03:18,508 --> 01:03:21,944 Months go by, and Zelig is not heard from. 1088 01:03:21,978 --> 01:03:23,445 Cars are searched. 1089 01:03:23,480 --> 01:03:26,278 False leads pour in from everywhere. 1090 01:03:26,316 --> 01:03:28,807 His jacket is recovered in Texas. 1091 01:03:28,852 --> 01:03:31,821 A manhunt in that state proves futile. 1092 01:03:31,855 --> 01:03:35,188 He is reported seen in Chicago, in California. 1093 01:03:35,225 --> 01:03:39,059 This still photo appears to have a man resembling him... 1094 01:03:39,095 --> 01:03:41,586 with a mariachi band in Mexico. 1095 01:03:45,068 --> 01:03:48,094 Dr. Fletcher continues to search for Zelig... 1096 01:03:48,138 --> 01:03:51,107 but hopes fade with each passing day. 1097 01:03:51,141 --> 01:03:54,599 All I could think of was Leonard... 1098 01:03:54,644 --> 01:03:57,613 how much I missed him and loved him... 1099 01:03:57,647 --> 01:04:00,616 and all the terrific times we'd spent together. 1100 01:04:00,650 --> 01:04:04,313 It was really a very painful time for me. 1101 01:04:04,354 --> 01:04:08,848 The year ends, and Zelig is still missing. 1102 01:04:12,228 --> 01:04:14,662 I just moped around and wept. 1103 01:04:14,697 --> 01:04:17,666 And one night after a very bad time... 1104 01:04:17,700 --> 01:04:20,168 my sister Meryl said to me... 1105 01:04:20,203 --> 01:04:23,172 "Come on, let's go out for dinner or a concert." 1106 01:04:23,206 --> 01:04:27,165 I said, "No. I can't do it," but she insisted. 1107 01:04:27,210 --> 01:04:30,543 We went out and ended up in a movie. 1108 01:04:30,580 --> 01:04:34,209 We saw "Grand Hotel," and with it, there was a newsreel. 1109 01:04:44,093 --> 01:04:47,085 Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist Party... 1110 01:04:47,130 --> 01:04:50,099 continue to consolidate gains in depression-ridden Berlin. 1111 01:04:50,133 --> 01:04:52,431 Denouncing the Treaty of Versailles... 1112 01:04:52,468 --> 01:04:56,199 the Nazis make fervent appeals to German patriotism... 1113 01:04:56,239 --> 01:05:00,107 Eudora Fletcher is stunned by what she sees. 1114 01:05:00,143 --> 01:05:02,111 Amongst the brown shirts... 1115 01:05:02,145 --> 01:05:05,114 she spots a figure who could be Zelig. 1116 01:05:05,148 --> 01:05:08,606 Then it made all the sense in the world... 1117 01:05:08,651 --> 01:05:11,620 because although he wanted to be loved... 1118 01:05:11,654 --> 01:05:13,622 craved to be loved... 1119 01:05:13,656 --> 01:05:16,124 there was also something in him... 1120 01:05:16,159 --> 01:05:20,255 that desired immersion in the mass and anonymity. 1121 01:05:20,296 --> 01:05:23,561 And Fascism offered Zelig that kind of opportunity... 1122 01:05:23,600 --> 01:05:28,060 so that he could make something anonymous of himself... 1123 01:05:28,104 --> 01:05:32,768 by belonging to this vast movement. 1124 01:05:32,809 --> 01:05:36,301 She sails for Europe the following week. 1125 01:05:36,346 --> 01:05:39,315 Ten days later, she arrives in Berlin. 1126 01:05:39,349 --> 01:05:43,809 Germany is a country deep in the throes of the Depression. 1127 01:05:43,853 --> 01:05:47,380 Militarism and unrest are in the air. 1128 01:05:47,423 --> 01:05:49,948 She searches everywhere and makes inquiries... 1129 01:05:49,993 --> 01:05:51,483 but it is impossible. 1130 01:05:51,527 --> 01:05:52,926 After three weeks... 1131 01:05:52,962 --> 01:05:55,430 the authorities begin to get suspicious. 1132 01:05:55,465 --> 01:05:56,932 They watch her. 1133 01:05:56,966 --> 01:06:00,424 While she is out, they search her hotel room. 1134 01:06:00,470 --> 01:06:02,404 A fourth week goes by... 1135 01:06:02,438 --> 01:06:04,838 and she is about to give up and go home... 1136 01:06:04,874 --> 01:06:09,334 when news of a large rally at Munich catches her attention. 1137 01:06:09,379 --> 01:06:11,347 It is rumoured that it will be... 1138 01:06:11,381 --> 01:06:14,350 the largest gathering to date of Nazi personnel. 1139 01:06:14,384 --> 01:06:16,682 Eudora Fletcher is counting on the hope... 1140 01:06:16,719 --> 01:06:21,952 that Zelig may attend and that if she can confront him... 1141 01:06:21,991 --> 01:06:26,621 the strong feeling he has always had for her can be awakened. 1142 01:06:26,663 --> 01:06:29,154 At first, all appears hopeless. 1143 01:06:29,198 --> 01:06:31,189 The crowd is huge. 1144 01:06:31,234 --> 01:06:34,829 It seems impossible to locate any one particular face. 1145 01:06:49,652 --> 01:06:52,621 Then suddenly, a figure flanking the chancellor... 1146 01:06:52,655 --> 01:06:54,350 catches her attention. 1147 01:06:54,390 --> 01:06:59,020 Behind and to the right of Hitler, she spots Zelig. 1148 01:06:59,062 --> 01:07:03,123 Struggling to make contact, she manages to catch his eye. 1149 01:07:03,166 --> 01:07:07,660 Like a man emerging from a dream, Zelig notices her. 1150 01:07:07,704 --> 01:07:12,164 In a matter of seconds, everything comes back to him. 1151 01:08:10,600 --> 01:08:13,160 It was nothing like it happened in the movie. 1152 01:08:13,202 --> 01:08:17,764 When Leonard left the podium, they didn't know what to think. 1153 01:08:17,807 --> 01:08:19,832 We couldn't believe our eyes. 1154 01:08:19,876 --> 01:08:21,844 Hitler's speech was ruined. 1155 01:08:21,878 --> 01:08:25,678 He wanted to make a good joke about Poland... 1156 01:08:25,715 --> 01:08:30,175 but just then, Zelig interfered... 1157 01:08:30,219 --> 01:08:34,178 and Hitler was extremely upset. 1158 01:08:34,223 --> 01:08:40,128 The SS wanted to grab Zelig... 1159 01:08:40,163 --> 01:08:43,132 but if they would have grabbed him... 1160 01:08:43,166 --> 01:08:46,135 they probably would have tortured him... 1161 01:08:46,169 --> 01:08:48,637 or maybe even shot him. 1162 01:08:48,671 --> 01:08:50,138 So in the confusion... 1163 01:08:50,173 --> 01:08:53,631 Fletcher and Zelig got out of the building... 1164 01:08:53,676 --> 01:08:55,644 through a side door. 1165 01:08:55,678 --> 01:08:59,136 They grabbed a car, sped away in the car... 1166 01:08:59,182 --> 01:09:02,015 and the SS after them, shot them. 1167 01:09:03,052 --> 01:09:05,077 In rare German newsreel footage... 1168 01:09:05,121 --> 01:09:08,113 a quick glimpse of the escape was recorded. 1169 01:09:22,138 --> 01:09:25,107 I was flying. It was wonderful. 1170 01:09:25,141 --> 01:09:27,609 And then suddenly, something happened. 1171 01:09:27,643 --> 01:09:30,111 I was frightened. I lost control. 1172 01:09:30,146 --> 01:09:32,114 We went into a dive. 1173 01:09:32,148 --> 01:09:36,380 Leonard was so terrified that he changed his personality... 1174 01:09:36,419 --> 01:09:40,378 and before my eyes, because I was a pilot... 1175 01:09:40,423 --> 01:09:42,618 he turned into one, too. 1176 01:09:42,658 --> 01:09:45,422 Zelig takes control of the airplane. 1177 01:09:45,461 --> 01:09:47,429 Acting the role of pilot... 1178 01:09:47,463 --> 01:09:50,023 he struggles valiantly with the aircraft. 1179 01:09:50,066 --> 01:09:54,093 The Germans, who are stunned, take a full fifteen minutes... 1180 01:09:54,136 --> 01:09:56,969 before following in hot pursuit of their quarry. 1181 01:09:57,006 --> 01:09:59,099 With Eudora Fletcher unconscious... 1182 01:09:59,141 --> 01:10:02,110 Zelig, who had never flown before in his life... 1183 01:10:02,144 --> 01:10:04,612 not only escapes the German pilots... 1184 01:10:04,647 --> 01:10:08,606 but sets a record for flying nonstop across the Atlantic... 1185 01:10:08,651 --> 01:10:10,141 upside down. 1186 01:10:31,307 --> 01:10:33,741 With a storm of cheers and a blizzard of ticker tape... 1187 01:10:33,776 --> 01:10:36,574 New York welcomes back Eudora Fletcher... 1188 01:10:36,612 --> 01:10:39,240 and Leonard Zelig, the human chameleon. 1189 01:10:39,282 --> 01:10:43,275 His remarkable feat of aviation fills the nation with pride... 1190 01:10:43,319 --> 01:10:45,947 and earns him a full presidential pardon. 1191 01:10:45,988 --> 01:10:47,649 Forgiving multitudes flock to see him... 1192 01:10:47,690 --> 01:10:50,625 as he sits by the side of his plucky bride-to-be. 1193 01:10:50,660 --> 01:10:52,719 Their journey of triumph leads to City Hall. 1194 01:10:52,762 --> 01:10:55,731 New York's greatest honour, the Medal of valour... 1195 01:10:55,765 --> 01:10:58,734 is bestowed on Zelig by Carter Dean. 1196 01:10:58,768 --> 01:11:03,705 You are a great inspiration to the young of this nation... 1197 01:11:03,739 --> 01:11:06,207 who will one day grow up... 1198 01:11:06,242 --> 01:11:09,211 and be great doctors and great patients. 1199 01:11:17,253 --> 01:11:19,221 This was a great thrill. 1200 01:11:19,255 --> 01:11:22,224 I'm glad we lived to see this day. 1201 01:11:22,258 --> 01:11:25,227 Right. I've never flown before in my life... 1202 01:11:25,261 --> 01:11:28,230 and it shows exactly what you can do... 1203 01:11:28,264 --> 01:11:30,255 if you're a total psychotic. 1204 01:11:35,104 --> 01:11:37,504 The thing was paradoxical... 1205 01:11:37,540 --> 01:11:40,998 because what enabled him to perform this astounding feat... 1206 01:11:41,043 --> 01:11:44,672 was his ability to transform himself. 1207 01:11:44,714 --> 01:11:49,674 Therefore, his sickness was also at the root of his salvation... 1208 01:11:49,719 --> 01:11:53,678 and I think it's interesting to view the thing that way. 1209 01:11:53,723 --> 01:11:59,821 It was his very disorder that made a hero of him. 1210 01:11:59,862 --> 01:12:02,922 It was really absurd in a way. 1211 01:12:02,965 --> 01:12:05,934 I mean, he had this curious quirk... 1212 01:12:05,968 --> 01:12:07,765 this strange characteristic. 1213 01:12:07,803 --> 01:12:10,271 And for a time, everyone loved him... 1214 01:12:10,306 --> 01:12:12,774 and then people stopped loving him. 1215 01:12:12,808 --> 01:12:15,777 Then he did this stunt with the airplane... 1216 01:12:15,811 --> 01:12:18,279 and then everybody loved him again. 1217 01:12:18,314 --> 01:12:21,283 And that was what the twenties were like. 1218 01:12:21,317 --> 01:12:25,014 When you think about it, has America changed so much? 1219 01:12:25,054 --> 01:12:27,022 I don't think so. 1220 01:12:27,056 --> 01:12:31,686 After untangling countless legal details... 1221 01:12:31,727 --> 01:12:35,185 Leonard Zelig and Eudora Fletcher marry. 1222 01:12:35,231 --> 01:12:39,463 It is a simple ceremony captured on home movies. 1223 01:12:58,320 --> 01:13:02,450 "Wanting only to be liked, he distorted himself... 1224 01:13:02,491 --> 01:13:05,119 "beyond measure," wrote Scott Fitzgerald. 1225 01:13:05,161 --> 01:13:08,289 "One wonders what would have happened if at the outset... 1226 01:13:08,330 --> 01:13:13,290 "he had had the courage to speak his mind and not pretend. 1227 01:13:13,335 --> 01:13:17,431 "In the end, it was, after all, not the approbation of many... 1228 01:13:17,473 --> 01:13:22,308 "but the love of one woman that changed his life."