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This clip is Part 1 of a 2-part film.
[EDISON'S MEMORIAL DEDICATION, GREENFIELD VILLAGE] Part 1
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Men on porch of frame building, entering building - limousine stopping in front of Edison’s laboratory at Greenfield Village, Thomas A. Edison getting out, Edsel Ford standing in door, Edison entering, women following, Henry and Mrs. Ford entering, chauffeur beside car, microphone on tripod set up near door, other couple entering - Henry Ford, Edison and others around steam engine - Edison operating engine - close-up of Ford and Edison - Ford and Edison posing beside engine - close-up of Ford and Edison talking - talking to group of men - Ford and Edison in doorway, walking over to microphone, Edison speaking - Ford and Edison reentering laboratory - Edison with spade in hand leaving car and climbing steps to platform, walking past his son, Charles Edison, with movie camera - Thomas Edison imbedding Luther Burbank’s spade in slab of wet cement, walking across it leaving footprints, walking down steps, signing name and date in cement while Ford looks over his shoulder, spectators, microphone near cement - close-up of Ford and Edison - man introduced to Edison - close-up of faces of Ford and Edison - Ford and group near car. Close-up of spade and inscription in slab - slab from front, inscription, ‘Thos. A. Edison: Sept. 27, 1928’ - three men posing on platform - view of cars, people and cameraman and equipment on platform - man walking up steps to platform. [1928]
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