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The Movies March On

(1939)

July 3, 1939 0h 22m
35%
TMDB Score

Overview

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.

Alan Brown

Director

Top Billed Cast

RA

Renée Adorée

Self (archive footage)

GMA

Gilbert M. Anderson

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

TB

Theda Bara

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

JB

Jackson Beck

Narrator

LB

Lionel Barrymore

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

CBD

Cecil B. DeMille

Self (archive footage)

GS

George Schaefer

Self (archive footage)