Silent Film: Mark Twain/Samuel Clemens (1909/Thomas Edison)
The only film footage of Samuel Langhorne Clemens, aka Mark Twain, the American humorist and author best known for his novels The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Prince and the Pauper, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court. Filmed 1 year before his death by inventor Thomas Edison.
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