The Film Parade

The Film Parade

7.51933· 55 min· United Kingdom
HistoryDocumentary

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

Director
J. Stuart Blackton
Country
United Kingdom

Cast

KS

Kent Stevenson

Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin

MD

Marlene Dietrich

WW

Woodrow Wilson

SB

Sarah Bernhardt

NS

Norma Shearer

TE

Thomas Edison

Gloria Swanson

Gloria Swanson

MP

Mary Pickford

WH

William Howard Taft

HL

Harold Lloyd

TM

Tom Mix

GC

Gary Cooper

Alan Hale

Alan Hale

CR

Charles Ray

CB

Clara Bow

LS

Larry Semon

MP

Marie Prevost

MM

Mae Murray

EJ

Emil Jannings

AJ

Al Jolson

HC

Harry Carey

FX

Francis X. Bushman

JB

John Bunny