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Video: Edison's 1899 Trip Across The Brooklyn Bridge

Here's some amazing footage of a trip across the Brooklyn Bridge... in 1899. It was filmed by the Edison Manufacturing Co., and copyrighted by Thomas Edison on September 22nd, 1899. The film starts in Brooklyn and ends in Manhattan:

There are plenty more where this came from—check out YouTube for a slew of old videos from Edison & Co. [via Kottke]

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By Jen Carlson in on November 5, 2010 12:14 PM

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  • Gwinny

    I didn't know they had trains on the Brooklyn Bridge.

  • Nice!

    Even back then, Annoying Billboards...

    ;)

  • Frank_LeSerious

    That's seriously great footage. Also, is it just me, or does it appear 1899 had its own version of the Verizon monolith?

  • CR

    Boring! Where's the part where the woman holds the cellphone up to her ear?

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