DocumentaryHistory
The Film That Was Lost
User Score1 votes
80%8.0/10
Release1942→
Runtime0H 10M
LanguageEnglish
StatusReleased
Synopsis
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.
Principal Cast5
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)
Media1
Posters
Director
Sammy Lee
Director →
Certification
NRKeywords
film preservationcinema history
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Production:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer