Thomas Edison: Persistent Genius

Duration: 600 ft.

Year Published: 1965

Creator: David Estes

Complete Record: reenactment--tone arm on turntable, classic shot--man w/ movie camera, 16mm projector, story of Edison & his development of the electric light, many shots of Edison at the drawing board, in the laboratory, taking notes, testing bulbs, OK but not classic shot--calendar pages fly by, various tests, vacuum bulb tests, bulb glows in tests! New Year’s Eve 1879, 1st demonstration of electric light, drafting diagrams, kid experiments like Edison, film shows how problems are solved through new ways of thinking, boy and girl look through microscope, end.