But Thomas Edison took a movie of Mark Twain. Awesome.
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A Man Who Has Nothing In Particular To Recommend Him Discusses All Sorts of Subjects at Random as Though He Knew Everything
A Man Who Has Nothing In Particular To Recommend Him Discusses All Sorts of Subjects at Random as Though He Knew Everything
But Thomas Edison took a movie of Mark Twain. Awesome.
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Only 99 years ago.
Now…where is my straw hat?
I’m a big reader of Nietzsche. I was quite shocked to find footage(!) of Uncle Fred!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alHu-nGqDHY
His mind is gone, and he’s less than a year away from dying in this 1899 snippet, but, hey, it’s here!
I love YouTube for things just like this.
Ron, that is very interesting and profoundly creepy to look at.
I thought only Mike Shanahan could steal your soul through his electronic depiction like that.
Sippican —
No worries! Don Cherry purges all Shanahan particles!
I recall when Hockey Night in Canada’s first show after the US invaded Afghanistan. Don Cherry’s face filled the screen, and he said:
“Canada is a parasite nation.”
Yikes! Confront much?