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Meet Mark Twain in this only known video recording

Article: Meet Mark Twain in this only known video recording

Posted April 19th, 2010, 4:04 PM by

From the video vault of history, here is the only known video recording of great American author Mark Twain aka Samuel Clemens hanging out with his daughters Clara and Jean. It was taken in 1909 at Twain’s estate in Stormfield, Connecticut with another famous American Thomas Edison directing behind the lens. Admittedly nothing too tremendously…

Bike tricks from 1899, filmed by Thomas Edison

Article: Bike tricks from 1899, filmed by Thomas Edison

Posted June 17th, 2009, 5:06 PM by

At the tail end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th, Thomas Edison filmed men doing bike tricks that seem surprisingly contemporary today. The description of this film at the Library of Congress reads: “‘Neidert,’ of national fame, does stunts on his wheel that are simply wonderful. Makes his bicycle rear up,…