Interview d'Ernest Hemingway 

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.

Heartbreaking to see him in that shape.

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.

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.

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

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.

I like his sweet smile at the end.

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

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

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.

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.

RIP Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 - July 2, 1961), aged 61

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

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.

This is so sad, and tragic, such a legend

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

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 .

Well, this was unusual. Thank you for posting it here.

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.

I have nothing but love for this man. He was courageous right until the end.