:04:05
Present that evening
was Calvin Turner, a waiter.
:04:09
A lot of gangsters
come in the place.
:04:12
They're good tippers
and take care of us.
:04:15
We take care of our customers.
:04:18
On this particular night,
here's a strange guy coming in.
:04:21
I'd never seen him before.
:04:23
So I asked the one
or the other...
:04:24
I said, "John,
you know this guy?
:04:26
"You ever seen him?"
So he looks.
:04:27
"No. I ain't never
seen him before.
:04:29
"I don't know who he is...
:04:30
"but I know one thing--
he's a tough-looking hombre."
:04:32
So I looked over, and then...
:04:34
the next thing,
the guy had disappeared.
:04:35
I don't know where he went to.
:04:38
But about this time,
the music starts...
:04:40
and the band
started playing.
:04:42
I looked. Here's a colored boy
over there playing trumpet.
:04:47
Man, he was playing back,
and I looked at the guy...
:04:50
and I said, "He looks
just like that gangster...
:04:53
"but the gangster was white,
and this guy is black."
:04:58
So I don't know
what's happening.
:05:01
New York City.
It is several months later.
:05:05
Police are investigating
the disappearance of a clerk...
:05:09
named Leonard Zelig.
:05:10
Both his landlady
and his employer...
:05:13
have reported him missing.
:05:14
They tell police he was an odd
little man who kept to himself.
:05:19
Two clues are found in
Zelig's Greenwich Village flat.
:05:22
One, a photograph of Zelig
with Eugene O'Neill...
:05:28
and one of him as Pagliacci.
:05:34
Acting on a tip, they trace
his whereabouts to Chinatown...
:05:39
where, in the rear
of a Chinese establishment...
:05:42
a strange-looking Oriental...
:05:44
who fits the description
of Leonard Zelig is discovered.
:05:48
Suspicious, the detectives
try to pull off his disguise...
:05:51
but it is not a disguise,
and a fight breaks out.
:05:56
He is removed by force
and taken to Manhattan Hospital.
:05:59
In the ambulance,
he rants and curses...