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.
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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)
The March of Time (1938-1939 season) #12: The Movies March On Trailer
The March of Time (Volume 5, No. 12): : The Movies March On Trailer
United States 03 July 1939
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15 December 1939
The spoiled daughter of a Georgia plantation owner conducts a tumultuous romance with a cynical profiteer during the American Civil War and Reconstruction Era.
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Good-natured gambler Marty Black falls into ownership of a booking joint but soon falls on hard times.
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Jerry tries to out compete his older brother Cass, a lieutenant Naval aviator. Cass is both tough on and protective of his brother, but Jerry can give it right back.
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Nicky Nelson is a fast-talking sideshow barker with a wax-and-alive concession on Atlantic City's boardwalk.
15 June 1939
In September 1938, an American diplomat negotiated in London the peace of Munich, rather than rush to Paris where his wife, a famous film actress, is about to fall into the arms of a young first.
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The MGM crime reporter introduces Norman Kennedy, District Attorney of a large city, he who talks about the general want for money, and the extraordinary lengths some will go to to get it.
25 March 1939
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