Legend of Mark Twain

Subject: traces Samuel Clemens’ life and career and dramatizes selections from two of his classics ‘The Adventures of Huck Finn’ and ‘The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County’. Visits his boyhood home in Hannibal, Missouri. Discusses his adventures as a steamboat captain; his writing career and the origin of his pseudonym, Mark Twain; and his brief involvement in the Civil War. One sequence shows motion picture footage of Clemens which were taken by Thomas Alva Edison.
Shots: Reenactments of Mark Twain’s boyhood with child actors,stills of Mark Twain’s cabin, Missouri River, Mississippi River,raft, black man, river boat, train, dramatization of Jumping Frog Contest - CU of toad, stills of Twain and his wife. “Current” footage inside home and factory. Stills of Twain in his latter years.