Smithsonian Magazine has some pretty amazing historical footage, Mark Twain on film in the early 1900s:
Silent film footage taken in 1909 by Thomas Edison at Mark Twain’s estate
Here it is:
The magazine says that this is the only known footage of Mark Twain in existence. Too bad it’s silent film because there are no known recordings of Twain’s voice. Although it has been reported that Twain did make recordings using Edison’s cylinders at some point, they have apparently been lost to history.
H/T: Pejman Yousefzadeh
