The Film Parade

Overview

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

Directed by J. Stuart Blackton

Top cast

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Kent Stevenson

Self - Narrator (voice)

Charlie Chaplin

(archive footage) (uncredited)

Marlene Dietrich

(archive footage) (uncredited)

Tom Mix

(archive footage) (uncredited)

Gilbert M. Anderson

(archive footage) (uncredited)

Theda Bara

(archive footage) (uncredited)

Clara Bow

(archive footage) (uncredited)

John Bunny

(archive footage) (uncredited)

Francis X. Bushman

(archive footage) (uncredited)

Harry Carey

(archive footage) (uncredited)

Marguerite Clayton

(archive footage) (uncredited)

Mathilde Comont

(archive footage) (uncredited)

Norma Shearer

(archive footage) (uncredited)

Gloria Swanson

(archive footage) (uncredited)

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