Existing comment:
To
Thomas Alva Edison
In grateful recognition of your eminent service
in the creation and development of the motion
picture, the hereunto subscribed members of
the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and
Sciences invite you to accept the distinction
of being
The First Honorary Member of the Academy
to which you were elected October 15, 1929.
You can read some of the signatures. Immediately below the proclamation are the names "Mary Pickford" and "Charlie Chaplin". Look too for DW Griffith, Noah Berry, Jeanie Macpherson, George M Cohan, Sid Grauman, Gloria Swanson, Lillian Gish, Jesse Lasky, Cecil B Demille, Darryl Zanuck, Douglas Fairbanks, etc. |