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Start Out Your Day With the Only Video of Mark Twain in Existence, Taken by Thomas Edison

by Alanna Bennett | 11:30 am, August 5th, 2012


Mark Twain lived in a time long before Instagram, before Youtube, even before the true acknowledgment of film as both an artform and as a commercial possibility. He probably liked it this way, but for us used to the modern era it means we are sadly dereft of the pleasures of watching the famous author move around his estate in that crotchety way we can all imagine. Usually. There is, however, this: What is said to be the only existing motion picture of Twain, taken by Thomas Edison himself.

(via Flavorwire)

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  • http://twitter.com/AbelUndercity Abel Undercity

    And the whole time he was probably grumbling about the contrived foolishness of it all, haha.

  • http://idleprimate.blogspot.ca/ idleprimate

     wasn’t Twain quite fascinated with technology of all kinds?

  • Anonymous

    Little known fact: Mark Twain joined forces with Bertha von Suttner and Nikola Tesla to do science and defeat the nefarious Thomas Edison and co. This is totally factual evidence of his interest in technology:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Five_Fists_of_Science

  • Angel S.

    It was a little unnerving watching one of his daughters stick those huge pins in her head. 

  • http://profiles.google.com/deceleration.waltz Deceleration Waltz

    Not ‘dereft,’ but ‘bereft.’

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