A "March of Time" presentation of the evolution of movies compiled primarily from film clips of silent movies through the early sound pictures to the present (1939) date. Industry executives such as Jack and Harry Warner, Walt Disney, Cecil B. DeMille, et al are seen taking bows in the live (non-archive) footage.
Cast
Renée Adorée
Self (archive footage)
Gilbert M. Anderson
Self - from 'The Great Train Robbery' (archive footage)
Theda Bara
Self - From 'A Fool There Was' (archive footage)
Jackson Beck
Narrator
Lionel Barrymore
Self (segment The New York Hat) (archive footage)
Cecil B. DeMille
Self (archive footage)
George Schaefer
Self (archive footage)
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