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The Movies March On

5.3 22 mins Documentary   1939
Director(s): Alan Brown

Release Date: 03 Mon, Jul 1939

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.

Casts of The Movies March On

Renée Adorée

as Self (archive footage)

Gilbert M. Anderson

as Self - from 'The Great Train Robbery' (archive footage)

Theda Bara

as Self - From 'A Fool There Was' (archive footage)

Jackson Beck

as Narrator

Lionel Barrymore

as Self (segment The New York Hat) (archive footage)

Cecil B. DeMille

as Self (archive footage)

George Schaefer

as Self (archive footage)

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