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[audience applause]
- Welcome to the 1893 World's Fair.
Our first presentation
is from the wizard of Menlo Park,
Mr. Thomas Edison,
who will be demonstrating some new inventions.
[applause]
- Thank you, thank you.
Now for my first invention I present for you all,
the phonograph!
[gasping]
Took thousands of hours for me to perfect,
a scientific marvel that can record
the sound of someone's voice.
- It's magical,
it can change the entire world as we know it.
- Yes, that is the phonograph.
- No, no, no.
That marvelous slinking spring apparatus.
[breathing heavily]
- That?
It's just a spare coil I had in my bag.
- Shh, shh,
it's weight seems to slink from hand to hand.
What do you call it?
- It's not anything, I don't call it anything.
- I would call it a slinky.
- Oh!
- I bet it can even go down stairs, oh!
- Alone, or in pairs!
- Let's focus, please, please!
Sir may I have you speak here
and your voice will be recorded.
- Is it quite safe?
- You have nothing to fear.
- Hello?
My name is Reginald and I am speaking to you now.
Thomas: Now, to reproduce the tonal frequency
of this man's voice.
Phonograph: Hello?
My name is Reginald and I am speaking to you now.
- Witchcraft!
- Wait what?
- What dark magic have called down upon us?
- Your phonograph is no slinky, sir!
All: [chanting] Slinky, slinky, slinky!
- How about I show you my next invention?
Reginald: Oh, okay.
- This, is the lightbulb.
[oohing]
Using electricity I can create a light
brighter than any candle.
Now who of you would like to be illuminated?
- Oh, please show us Mr. Edison.
- Yes, my husband and I would like to be illuminated.
- Dim the gas lamps please.
- Oh!
Margaret!
You look absolutely heinous in this light.
- Turn it off!
- But I just--
- I don't want to be illuminated!
Turn.
It.
Off!
- Do it, do it.
- The wizard of Menlo Park
has released his evil magic upon us once again.
- I'm not really a wizard it's just an expression.
It's science!
- I don't know what that means
so I hate and fear it!
- Give us more slinkies!
- Slinky's not a thing!
- Yes it is a thing, it's a spring.
A spring, a marvelous thing.
All: [chanting] Slinky, slinky,
slinky, slinky, slinky!
- Everybody calm down!
Sit down.
[audience laughter]
This next one is my greatest invention yet,
it is very entertaining.
[screaming]
Really lady?
I haven't done anything yet.
- I am sorry, I spoke too soon.
- I give you, motion pictures.
I place images on celluloid,
and when I put them in sequence
it creates the illusion of movement, observe.
- The train is coming right towards us!
- Ah, this way to safety!
[glass shattering]
- He had the slinky!
[crying]
- Sweet Sally May we're on the third floor!
What's wrong with you people?
- What's wrong with us?
- Yes, you're the one hurling trains at people!
- What's a train?
- We want nothing to do with your picture box
Mr. Edison, get out!
[all yelling at Edison]
- All right, fine.
I'll leave, you people clearly
can't understand my genius.
- Wait, what's that you have there?
- What, that?
It's just a child's toy I made,
a birthday gift for my nephew.
- What, what does it do?
- Oh, please don't tell me another train comes out of it.
- No, there's no train,
I'll show you.
Fish: ♪ Camptown races sing this song, ♪
♪ doo dah, doo dah. ♪
♪ Camptown racetrack five miles long, ♪
♪ oh doo doo doo dah day, hey. ♪
- It's beautiful.
- A true masterpiece of the modern age!
- You genius, you've done it!
- Huzzah for Thomas Edison and his singing devil fish
and slinky!
- Again!
Fish: ♪ Camptown races sing this song, ♪
All: [singing along] ♪ doo dah, doo dah♪
♪ Camptown races sing this song, ♪
♪ oh, doo dah day. ♪
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