Here's a video transfer from an 1899 film shot by Thomas Edison of a rail-crossing of the Brooklyn Bridge. As with all Edison films of the day, it ends spectacularly, with the electrocution of an elephant, the cursing of Tesla, and broad claims of credit for all the research performed by every researcher at Edison Labs. It originally retailed for $22.50 in the Edison films catalog.
Brooklyn to New York via Brooklyn Bridge 1899
(via Kottke)
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- The further adventures of Thomas Edison, asshat
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- Thomas Edison's crappy, price-fixing EULA
- Edison's prefab, permutable fireproof concrete houses
- Edison electrocuted an elephant 105 years ago today
- Did Edison die poor?
