On a hunting trip in 1902, then President Theodore Roosevelt refused to shoot an American Black Bear that had been tied to a tree. The story became the origin of the Teddy Bear. Here only 5 years after the event, Edwin S. Porter, one of Edison’s chief filmmakers, created a short playing on Goldilocks as well as the President himself. Also included is perhaps the oldest example of stop motion animation – a sequence lasting a little over a minute that took a full week to shoot.
