As to the identity of the apparent butler in the Edison footage -- he has never been positively identified to my knowledge. Possibilities include Horace Hazen, a local young man who worked for Clemens for a short time, and Claude Beuchotte who I profiled in this online article: http://www.twainquotes.com/beuchotte.html Establishing the man's identity is hampered by the lack of known photographs of both Hazen who died in 1930 in Fairfield, CT and Beuchotte whose date and place of death have not been established. Barb