. . . 6 minute, 45.19-second short from the 1908 catalog of the notorious Edison Manufacturing Company is pretty hard to follow, given that this title is more chopped up than many included among the 150-piece+ 2005 4-disc Kino set (keep in mind that the U.S. taxpayer-supported Library of Congress has more than 400 Edison pieces available for instant download from its website alone, but the Kino folks had to rule out the majority of those as not suitable for the DVD-buying public on the basis of endemic racism, general lawless mayhem, violence, and sex, leaving them to scrape the bottom of the barrel with "tamer" stuff such as this mishmash, A SUBURBANITE'S INGENIOUS ALARM, or ELECTROCUTING AN ELEPHANT, in which the famous beloved Coney Island pachyderm, Topsy, was fried alive with flames shooting from her feet as she bellowed because she was being tortured but NOT killed (her head is still moving AFTER Tommy's fun concludes), in one of the science project public demonstrations Edison was famous for ring-mastering himself with the cameras rolling, which DID make the cut for this 4-disc set, being the most notable thing Edison personally did in his life, as opposed to stealing the credit from his Black hired help and others for his thousand-odd patents, with hiring good lawyers being his best skill). Mr. Early is late here, so he ties one end of a rope around a leg of his bed and drapes the other out the window onto a public sidewalk, with predictable results.