# STORY OF THOMAS A. EDISON INVENTION OF THE LIGHTBULB & BIOGRAPHY SHORT MOVIE 86684

In LET THERE BE LIGHT, a 1940s educational film, the story of Thomas Edison is told. The film opens with the miracle of glittering modern cities and Times Square. (00:00:15:00) Vintage footage of an elderly Edison speaking is shown at (00:00:27:00). Edison’s childhood home in Ohio is shown at (00:01:28:00). Vintage railroad footage is shown at (00:01:45:00). Telegraph lines being erected are shown at (00:02:00:00) , a job Edison had as a young man at seventeen. He soon became a telegraph operator for four years. Footage of telegraph operation can be seen at (00:02:15:00). Very old footage of the streets of New York City can be seen at (00:02:30:00), along with the stock exchange (00:02:35:00) that Edison invented a new ticker machines for. Footage of his first home as a married man in New Jersey is shown at (00:02:50:00). Footage of Edison’s first phonograph talking machine can be seen at (00:03:03:00). Footage of Edison’s improvements to the type-writer (00:03:18:00) and the telephone (00:03:28:00) are shown before moving on to his research on the electric light. (00:03:35:00) The working light bulb can be seen at (00:04:00:00). More vintage footage of New York City can be seen at (00:04:10:00). An original power station is shown at (00:04:13:00), of which Edison created all the machinery for. Following this achievement came the electric trolley. (00:04:42:00) In 1917, some thirty years after the invention of the electric lamp (00:04:50:00), Edison moved his laboratory to…

- Kind: Film
- By: PeriscopeFilm
- Genres: Industrial and advertising
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/86684-let-there-be-light)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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