Found this old Lincoln silent film

[Thomas Kearney]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6CgmQsQQxA&app=desktop

Made by Thomas Edison in 1915, The Life Of Abraham Lincoln stars Frank McGlynn in his timeless role for the first time!

I hope you enjoy! Assassination at 13:57 mark

[Gene C]

That was good find Thomas.
I enjoyed the scene of Lincoln pushing the baby carriage.

[Thomas Kearney]

(11-19-2015 06:17 PM)Gene C Wrote:  That was good find Thomas.
I enjoyed the scene of Lincoln pushing the baby carriage.

Thanks! I remember finding a still of the assassination in a book when I was 10 and had to find out more.

[Eva Elisabeth]

(11-19-2015 06:17 PM)Gene C Wrote:  That was good find Thomas.
I enjoyed the scene of Lincoln pushing the baby carriage.

I second Gene, Thomas! And especially that Edison made this is fascinating to me!

[Thomas Kearney]

(11-19-2015 06:43 PM)Eva Elisabeth Wrote:  

(11-19-2015 06:17 PM)Gene C Wrote:  That was good find Thomas.
I enjoyed the scene of Lincoln pushing the baby carriage.

I second Gene, Thomas! And especially that Edison made this is fascinating to me!

Thanks Eva! Edison was one of the driving forces in the invention of the moving picture!

[Anita]

Thank you Thomas!! I loved it. I think Frank McGlynn made a credible Lincoln. You made me realize how rich the offerings are on
youtube and that I really need to explore the site.

[RJNorton]

(11-19-2015 06:17 PM)Gene C Wrote:  That was good find Thomas.
I enjoyed the scene of Lincoln pushing the baby carriage.

I wonder what the book titles were.

[Eva Elisabeth]

I wonder if this was the kind of baby carriage/wagon they had (of which one of the kids allegedly fell out unnoticed by him).

[LincolnMan]

Pretty neat watching a film that is one hundred years old. Thanks for posting it!

[Thomas Kearney]

(11-24-2015 05:58 AM)RJNorton Wrote:  

(11-19-2015 06:17 PM)Gene C Wrote:  That was good find Thomas.
I enjoyed the scene of Lincoln pushing the baby carriage.

I wonder what the book titles were.

The Day Lincoln Was Shot: An Illustrated Chronicle by Richard Bak (this is the movie companion book to the TNT film)

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(11-23-2015 09:00 PM)Anita Wrote:  Thank you Thomas!! I loved it. I think Frank McGlynn made a credible Lincoln. You made me realize how rich the offerings are on
youtube and that I really need to explore the site.

Glad to hear that!

[RJNorton]

(11-19-2015 06:17 PM)Gene C Wrote:  ....Lincoln pushing the baby carriage.

One neighbor, Mrs. (Anna Eastman) Johnson, recalled seeing this as a young girl. She described it this way:

"My first recollection is that he seemed very tall. I can see him now, walking slowly past the house pushing a baby carriage with one hand, while in the other he held an open book which he was reading studiously! He was a grotesque figure, wearing a long linen duster and a tall hat, ridiculously tall."

[L Verge]

Mrs. Johnson would likely faint dead away if she saw the height of many people today. I once read a story about a Union soldier who was 6'6" and was captured by the Confederates. Supposedly, instead of shipping him off to a prison camp, they paraded him through Southern cities as proof that the Yankees were huge beasts who would come South to eat the women and children. What better proof than to have one on display.

[Eva Elisabeth]

So I guess Maasai were not enslaved - I think there are quite some other extraordinary tall tribes in Africa.