https://youtu.be/mqaSOw1WhjI
VintageEveryDay— TFG Film & Tape has performed a digital restoration to the film shot by Thomas Edison in 1909, this is the only known footage of the great author Mark Twain. Twain is shown walking around his home in Redding, Connecticut, and playing cards with his daughters Clara and Jean. The image has been flipped left to right to correct the camera-to-subject orientation. It has had it’s speed corrected from the camera frame rate of the day. The detail has been enhanced dramatically bringing out visuals never before seen. The fluctuations in the exposure have been reduced markedly making the image much more pleasing to watch.
That is a funny video. It looks like Mark Twain sets a senior citizen record for walking around the house, and then everyone sits down in a howling wind to drink tea. What the heck? Where is the choreography?
Nice to see the old reprobate moving around though.
Well at least he didn’t get a bunch of fish slime all over his ‘stogie…
From Wikipedia
In December 1909, Jean Clemens (aged 29) was staying at her father’s home, Stormfield in Redding, Connecticut and had decorated the home for the upcoming Christmas holiday. On the morning of December 24, 1909, she was found dead in the bathtub. She had apparently suffered a heart attack brought on by a seizure and drowned. Clemens was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in Elmira.
MT would be the one I would like to have dinner with.
He would probably curse me and whack me with his cane… but I would display my new welt to all passers by
One of the cool things about getting old is the prospect that I may soon get to meet Mr. Twain, assuming we are in the same general area. From my years reading about him, I can’t wait to meet him. I hope history was kind and correct, but I have no doubt he still has story a plenty he never told. It’ll be our little secret!
My favorite MT quote goes roughly as follows….
“If you don’t read a newspaper every day, you are uninformed. If you DO read a newspaper every day, you are misinformed.”
Say what you will about Edison vs Tesla (mostly true), the Edison-Ford Winter Estates in Fort Myers are nice. They show part of this clip there.
Not to nitpick, but it’s simply “cuppa”. The “tea” is implied.
My work here is done.
Any time someone starts a sentence with “Not to nitpick, but…”,
I know my nits are in danger.
; )