The Benefactor
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THE BENEFACTOR. (1917, silent, 3reels, b&w, 35mm)
Sponsor/production Co.: General Electric Co. resources: Copyright not registered; EFC (1936), 92; “General Electric: A Visual pioneer,” Bus Scrn 1, no. 5 (1938): 17; “Exposition pays its Homage to the Wizard of Menlo park,” NYT, Aug. 13, 1939, 26. Holdings: not reported.
Film linking the sponsor with its founder, Thomas Alva Edison. The Benefactor recounts the celebrated inventor’s biography, emphasizing his early career and invention of the incandescent lamp. note: The film was shot with Edison’s approval in a studio built at General Electric’s plant in Schenectady, New York. It was later distributed in a two-reel silent version and as a one-reel sound short titled The Great Benefactor.
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