Souvenir from "Young Tom Edison" Movie Premiere and Edison Days Celebration, Port Huron, Michigan, February 10-11, 1940
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In February 1940, MGM premiered its film Young Tom Edison in Edison's boyhood home of Port Huron, Michigan. The movie starred Mickey Rooney as the young inventor. This small souvenir contains an image of Thomas Edison as a boy on one side and Rooney in the role of Edison on the other.
In February 1940, MGM premiered its film Young Tom Edison in Edison's boyhood home of Port Huron, Michigan. The movie starred Mickey Rooney as the young inventor. This small souvenir contains an image of Thomas Edison as a boy on one side and Rooney in the role of Edison on the other.
Artifact
Souvenir
Date Made
1939-1940
Subject Date
10 February 1940
Creators
Unknown
Keywords
United States, Michigan, Port Huron
Motion pictures (Visual works)
Young Tom Edison (Motion picture : 1940)
Collection Title
On Exhibit
By Request in the Benson Ford Research Center
Object ID
40.608.2
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Cardboard
Paper (Fiber product)
String (Fiber product)
Technique
Photomechanical processes
Printing (Process)
Color
Blue
White (Color)
Dimensions
Diameter: 3 in
Inscriptions
Printed on first side, under Mickey Rooney image: Mickey Rooney / "Young Tom Edison" / World Premiere / PORT HURON, MICHIGAN / Feb. 10, 1940/ A MGM Picture Printed on second side, under Thomas Edison image: Thomas Alva Edison / as a boy in Port Huron / EDISON DAYS / PORT HURON, MICH. / Feb. 10-11, 1940
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