Young Tom Edison (1940)

Young Tom Edison is a 1940 biographical film about the early life of inventor Thomas Edison, with Mickey Rooney in the title role. The movie follows the imaginative boy Tom as he continually gets into mischief and causes accidents locally with his chemical experiments. The townspeople regard him as a troublemaker. As the Civil War breaks out, Tom starts a business enterprise peddling food and snacks on board trains, and later composing and handing out news sheets to passengers. In a stroke of inspiration, Tom at night cleverly focuses light from multiple lamps onto a large mirror, enabling a surgeon to successfully operate on his mother. The story ends with Tom desperately signaling in Morse Code with a train whistle, alerting the engineer of another train filled with passengers to stop before it plunges into a river. These two acts finally vindicate Tom who is now a hero.

Synopsis

L'inventeur Thomas Edison enfance de est chronique et lui montre un jeune homme dont les premières inventions et expériences scientifiques finissent généralement causer des résultats désastreux. En conséquence, les gens pensent tous les villes Tom est fou, et la création d'une relation tendue entre Tom et son père. Toms seule consolation est sa mère qui croit comprendre qu'il est dirigé à faire de grandes choses.

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