Produced in conjunction with Light's Golden Jubilee, a campaign celebrating the 50th anniversary of Thomas Edison' sinvention of the commericially-available electric light bulb, which ended with an event held in Dearborn, Michigan on October 21, 1929.
View of Thomas Edison's Menlo Park office building and his Menlo Park Laboratory research building. Thomas Edison and Francis Jehl re-enact the invention of Edison's incandescent electrc light as Henry Ford and President Herbert Hoover observe. View of the Henry Ford Museum grounds.
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Can you post the video from the centennial of the light bulb? In 1979 I was in Greenfield Village when the video camera was being set up to match the old newsreel. I think there was a relative of Edison's on hand for the occasion.
Mark1976 2 years ago