Souvenirs from "Young Tom Edison" Movie Premiere and "Edison Days" Celebration in 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. Rooney and other dignitaries arrived in Port Huron on a train lent by Henry Ford. The train followed the same route traveled by Edison in his youth when he sold candy and newspapers to passengers.
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. Rooney and other dignitaries arrived in Port Huron on a train lent by Henry Ford. The train followed the same route traveled by Edison in his youth when he sold candy and newspapers to passengers.
Artifact
Souvenir
Date Made
1939-1940
Subject Date
11 February 1940
Creators
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
40.608.3
Credit
From the Collections of The Henry Ford.
Material
Cardboard
Paper (Fiber product)
Technique
Printing (Process)
Color
Black-and-white (Colors)
Green
Dimensions
Height: 3.75 in
Width: 6.563 in
Inscriptions
Printed on envelope: COMMEMORATING / HISTORIC TRIP OF / EDISON TRAIN / (Courtesy of Henry Ford) / FEBRUARY 10TH, 1940 / DETROIT TO PORT HURON / VIA GRAND TRUNK R.R. / FOR WORLD PREMIERE / MICKEY ROONEY / IN / "YOUNG TOM EDISON" / (M.G.M. PICTURE) Printed on card insert: Dear Friends of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: / If you are a stamp collector, you will be interested in the envelope or "cover" which enclosed this card...this note will serve to remind you that / coming very soon to your town, will be the fascinating performance of Mickey Rooney, / depicting the youthful days of Thomas Alva Edison who has been so often described / as the "most valuable single human being, the world has ever known." / Cordially, / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures
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