Edison, the Man [DVD] / a Metro Goldwyn Mayer picture ; screenplay by Talbot Jennings and Bradbury Foote ; directed by Clarence Brown ; produced by John W. Considine, Jr.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1940. Spencer Tracy, Rita Johnson, Lynne Overman, Charles Coburn, Gene Lockhart, Henry Travers, Felix Bressart.
Summary:
Incredible biography of the genius who created, among other society-changing inventions, the motion picture medium. This story depicts Edison's beginning when he was a penniless janitor who set up a make-shift laboratory in an office basement.
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