Documentary

History

The Film That Was Lost

8.0

10 min

1942

Sammy Lee

In this John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short, a look is taken at the problems of film preservation efforts in the 1930s and early 1940s.

Top Cast

John Nesbitt

Narrator (voice)

William Jennings Bryan

Self (archive footage)

Theodore Roosevelt

Self (archive footage)

Thomas A. Edison

Self (archive footage)

King George V of the United Kingdom

Self (archive footage)

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