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Status
Released
Release
2002
Runtime
1h 26m
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.
50 Cast Members
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)
