Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story

1h 26m

Documentary TV Movie

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The story of the short film from the beginning of the movies in the 1890s, when all movies were shorts, through the 1950s when short subjects virtually disappeared from theaters.

Cast

Chevy Chase

Narrator (voice)

Kenneth Anger

Self (uncredited)

Richard L. Bare

Self (uncredited)

Nat Benchley

Self (uncredited)

Sid Caesar

Self (uncredited)

Phyllis Coates

Self (uncredited)

Tim Conway

Self (uncredited)

Walter Cronkite

Self (uncredited)

Dorothy DeBorba

Self (uncredited)

William Dunster

Self (uncredited)

Dr. Raymond Fielding

Self (uncredited)

Joe Franklin

Self (uncredited)

Sylvia Froos

Self (uncredited)

Richard Goldstone

Self (uncredited)

Lorna Gray

Self (uncredited)

Sanford Green

Self (uncredited)

Bruce Helford

Self (uncredited)

Robert Henabery

Self (uncredited)

Gregory Hines

Self (uncredited)

Ron Hutchinson

Self (uncredited)

Illinois Jacquet

Self (uncredited)

Robert Lees

Self (uncredited)

Frank Lillo

Self (uncredited)

Howie Mandel

Self (uncredited)

Rose Marie

Self (uncredited)

Branford Marsalis

Self (uncredited)

Dorothy Morris

Self (uncredited)

Bob Newhart

Self (uncredited)

Joseph M. Newman

Self (uncredited)

Fayard Nicholas

Self (uncredited)

Hal Roach

Self (uncredited)

George Sidney

Self (uncredited)

Jay R. Smith

Self (uncredited)

Vola Vale

Self (uncredited)

Jackie Lynn Taylor

Self (uncredited)

Sam White

Self (uncredited)

Thelma White

Self (uncredited)

Toby Wing

Self (uncredited)

Joe DeRita

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Deanna Durbin

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Larry Fine

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Judy Garland

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Oliver Hardy

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Moe Howard

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Stan Laurel

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Harold Lloyd

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Howard Morris

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Harold Nicholas

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Mack Sennett

Self (archive audio) (uncredited)

Pete Smith

Self (archive footage) (uncredited)

Crew

John Griffin

Director, Writer

Leonard Maltin

Writer, Book