Pioneer filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton was intrigued by the idea of a film about the history of the movies as early as 1915. He finally released a 52-minute feature called The Film Parade that was shown in New York and favorably reviewed by "Variety" in 1933. He continued tinkering with the film for the rest of the decade, and later filmmakers and distributors used Blackton's footage for stock or to produce their own variously titled and truncated versions. -UCLA Film & Television Archive
Kent Stevenson
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Charlie Chaplin
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marlene Dietrich
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Tom Mix
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gilbert M. Anderson
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Theda Bara
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Clara Bow
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Bunny
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Francis X. Bushman
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Harry Carey
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Marguerite Clayton
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
Mathilde Comont
as (archive footage) (uncredited)
