Edison - 81 (1928)

Thomas Edison celebrates his 81st birthday and demonstrates a new lighting system. No titles. Florida, United States of America. C/U of inventor and physicist Thomas Alva Edison with his wife in their garden on Edison’s 81st birthday. Various shots of Edison sitting at a table in front of his house, demonstrating some kind of a new electric lighting system on a small circuit. Several shots of Edison in his garden; he seems to be breaking off small branches from a bush and handing them to the men with him who examine the sap. More men appear; one hands Edison some paper, then takes it back to write something down for him (some sort of scientific data, no doubt). FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes