The video, unless my memory fails me, is also incorrectly labeled as having been filmed in 1909.  Jean Clemens is shown in the film, which was apparently taken at Stormfield.  I don't think she was at Stormfield before about March or April of 1910.

I could be wrong.

It's also funny that it is labeled as being filmed by Thomas Edison.  It's a minor point, of course, but Edison probably personally never filmed anything in his life.  Obviously, it was an employee of his film company that filmed Mark Twain.

Carl

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On Sep 9, 2013, at 9:36 AM, Kevin Mac Donnell <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Interesting that this video is flipped just like the one on youtube, and it 
> makes me wonder who copied from whom, or if they share a common flawed 
> source. I'm used to seeing flipped negatives on photos printed from glass 
> plate negatives or modern repros, but I wonder how often an entire video of 
> that vintage has been flipped. It's no big deal that somebody messed up on 
> youtube, but too bad the Smithsonian got sloppy. They should fix it just to 
> be historically accurate, if they really give a hoot. In truth, Twain was 
> holding the cigar in his left hand not his right, and he was walking around 
> from the "cellar side" of Stormfield rather than the "loggia side." This 
> flipped film makes him appear left-handed since he's holding the cigar in 
> his right hand, and of course misrepresents the architecture of Stormfield. 
> G-r-r-r-r-r...
> 
> Kevin
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> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Tony Verhulst" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2013 6:38 PM
> Subject: The only known MT film footage
> 
> 
>> I've seen this before - we probably all have. But, I just ran across it
>> again and thought is was worth posting.
>> 
>> http://www.smithsonianmag.com/video/The-Only-Footage-of-Mark-Twain-in-Existence.html
>> 
>> Tony
>> 
>> 
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