:59:02
You know, this looks like the file
I saw at the Loisel Institute.
:59:06
- Oh, it "is" the original, isn't it?
- Yes, I believe it is.
:59:08
How'd you get it?
Are you going to do a follow-up?
:59:12
We never did. The managing editor
would never assign it.
:59:15
Well, they've asked me to find out
as much as I can about it.
:59:17
We're not quite sure
what kind of a piece we'd do.
:59:20
Oh, well, come on in
and we'll talk about it, huh?
:59:24
The subject
is a curious one.
:59:27
After we ran this story,
we got about 500 letters.
:59:30
No matter what else they said,
they all had that same tone
of morbid fascination.
:59:35
I don't excuse myself,
either.
:59:38
Though I actually met the Blanchion
girls, I was the same way.
:59:43
Hey. You know,
if you're going to do that piece,
:59:46
I've got something
I'd like to show you.
:59:48
- Oh, I'd appreciate anything that...
- You do have some time now?
:59:51
- Of course!
- Sometimes I forget myself
when I get going on a subject,
:59:55
but actually, if you have the time,
I'd like to show you a videotape.
:59:58
The more I learned,
the more interested I became.
1:00:01
You see, to me at any rate,
the psychological and
philosophical elements...
1:00:05
are of extreme importance.
1:00:08
Yes. Fine.
1:00:11
Well, there.
About to begin.
1:00:20
Conjoined twins,
called Siamese,
1:00:24
challenge life
at their first breath.
1:00:28
History had them
as the stuff of myth and symbol.
1:00:31
Some tried to achieve
such normality as they could.
1:00:35
The famous Chang and Eng,
the twins of Siamese birth...
1:00:39
who gave this congenital
abnormality its popular name,
1:00:42
married and fathered families.
1:00:46
Other twins lived by hiring
themselves out to sideshows...
1:00:50
or running
small town souvenir shops.
1:00:54
With the sophisticated surgical
techniques developed in this century,
1:00:58
some twins have been separated
and lead normal lives.