This Mystery Scoop “Smilin’ Abe” video is a year old, but I’ve only just discovered it. All my life the nation’s 16th President has been this sad-eyed, weary-looking monochrome fellow with a creased face and in need of a comb. Now he’s not only in believable color, but slightly grinning and twinkle-eyed and attuned to the mood in the room. Clearly a feature film (or at least a short) will be made within five or ten years in which the actual Lincoln speaks, moves, reacts, converses. This is really fascinating.
