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Filmmaker: Muffie Meyer and Ellen Hovde
VHS - $ 75.00
Price includes Public Performance License.
In fifteen minutes, LIGHT cleverly shows the history of light: from the beginnings of time to Thomas Edison's invention of the incandescent light bulb, and the development of the machinery needed for its mass production by Corning Glass Works. The film also explores other sources of illumination -- fire, candles, oil, kerosene, and gas -- all rapidly displaced by Edison's brilliant application of distribution systems for electricity and power.

Running time: 15 min, Year released: 1981
Close captioned?: N, Color?: Y
Avail. formats: 16mm,VHS
ISBN: 1-55974-209-7
Language: English, Subtitled?: N
For classroom?: Y, Study Guide?: N
Grade level: Kindergarten and up

Reviews:

"...this succinct and novel celebration of electric light will glow in public library and classroom showings."
--Booklist

Other Credits:

Presented by the Corning Glass Works

Directed by Ellen Hovde and Muffie Meyer

Middlemarch Films; CINE Golden Eagle
This title can also be found in: Americana, Children's, CINE Golden Eagle Award Winner, Engineering, History, Industrial Age, Industry, Inventions, Science & Scientists, Short Films, U.S. History, U.S.A.
 

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