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On March 15, 1930 Thomas Edison should give an interview. Edison refused… It seems, that the Inventor of the Talking Machine didn’t like the idea of an Microphone in the garden…

The "Not happened" Video:
http://tinyurl.com/edison1930

Thanks for showing this. I've never seen it. This was just a year before Edison's death. He looks pretty tall and has a good posture for his age, and still walks good!

I wish he were still alive.

I love that "OH no! No way!" laugh, when he realizes the microphone is for him. "Not a-goin' to talk!" ... Tell it like it is, Tom ! He looks flustered and unpleasantly surprised - I bet nobody told him there was a camera waiting for him; I imagine if he wanted to be filmed, he'd have put in his dentures.