Beginings of flatland :))))

[Ante]

Check this out. It's about 5 mb's but it's worth downloading. :D

http://memory.loc.gov/mbrs/varsmp/0836.mpg

[description]

haha. :) i wonder if they wish they had pegs :D

[jake2o04]

haha that bikes almost taller than him

[Louis K]

I like the hand scuffing.

[g.g.]

yeeaaahhh!......thats gotta be the best old vid iv ever seen...if that was made by sum1 on photoshop ill b soo sad

[freakyflatlander]

that was awesome!! great vid made my day :lol:

[rocket]

Damn that guy and video should be a legion! Hes my new idol :P

[Ante]

If you all haven't seen that is Thomas Edison, one of the gratest inventers in the field of electricity. :D The guy is insane 8)

[rocket]

Holy crap i didnt even notice that! Makes wonder if the video is really of him though....hmm i'll have to read up on some history.
Now i have a mental video in my head of Thomas Edison, the inventor of flatland and the light bulb. lol

[rocket]

ahh man what a let down...i found out its not really him but it was recorded by his filmming company. Still pretty cool though...
Heres some info about the video...

Bicycle trick riding, no. 2

CREATED/PUBLISHED United States : Edison Manufacturing Co., 1899.

SUMMARY- Opens with a man riding a bicycle in a backwards circle, on a stage with a painted backdrop of a city street. He dismounts, then remounts the cycle and rides in a forwards circle, pausing and balancing for a moment as he rears up and spins the front wheel. Continuing in the circle, the man moves in front of the handlebars and continues pedaling briefly. For his next trick, the cyclist makes one circle and then pauses center stage as he does a balancing act to the left side of the bike, with his left leg on the pedal and his right on the front wheel. Ends after he remounts but continues to hold the bicycle motionless.

More about his company...

Edison's laboratory was responsible for the invention of the Kinetograph (a motion picture camera) and the Kinetoscope (a peep-hole motion picture viewer). Most of this work was performed by Edison's assistant, William Kennedy Laurie Dickson, beginning in 1888. Motion pictures became a successful entertainment industry in less than a decade, with single-viewer Kinetoscopes giving way to films projected for mass audiences. The Edison Manufacturing Co. (later known as Thomas A. Edison, Inc.) not only built the apparatus for filming and projecting motion pictures, but also produced films for public consumption. Most early examples were actualities showing famous people, news events, disasters, people at work, new modes of travel and technology, scenic views, expositions, and other leisure activities. As actualities declined in popularity, the company's production emphasis shifted to comedies and dramas.

This collection features 341 Edison films. The earliest example is a camera test made in 1891, followed by other tests and a wide variety of actualities and dramas through the year 1918, when Edison's company ceased film production.

[Ante]

crap, i thought it was him, ah, what the hell still a cool video

[rap_never_ends]

*** video.. never wanna see i again