Thomas Alva Edison’s Speech, 1927

This Fox Movietone film clip contains the Speech of Thomas Alva Edison. In this Clip, Edison recites an excerpt from a famous nursery rhyme, “Mary had a little lamb, Its fleece was white as snow; And everywhere that Mary went, The lamb was sure to go.“ These words were recorded by a Fox Movietone newsreel camera at Edison’s Glenmount home in West Orange NJ on August 12, 1927. Edison re-enacted his historic invention of the tinfoil phonograph for the Golden Jubilee of the Phonograph ceremony 50