Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story

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.

Documentary TV Movie

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))

Illinois Jacquet

(Self (uncredited))

Robert Lees

(Self (uncredited))

Frank Lillo

(Self (uncredited))

Howie Mandel

(Self (uncredited))

Rose Marie

(Self (uncredited))

Branford Marsalis

(Self (uncredited))

Dorothy Morris

(Self (uncredited))

Bob Newhart

(Self (uncredited))

Joseph M. Newman

(Self (uncredited))

Fayard Nicholas

(Self (uncredited))

Hal Roach

(Self (uncredited))

George Sidney

(Self (uncredited))

Jay R. Smith

(Self (uncredited))

Vola Vale

(Self (uncredited))

Jackie Lynn Taylor

(Self (uncredited))

Sam White

(Self (uncredited))

Thelma White

(Self (uncredited))

Toby Wing

(Self (uncredited))

Joe DeRita

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Deanna Durbin

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Larry Fine

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Judy Garland

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Oliver Hardy

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Moe Howard

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Stan Laurel

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Harold Lloyd

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Howard Morris

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Harold Nicholas

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))

Mack Sennett

(Self (archive audio) (uncredited))

Pete Smith

(Self (archive footage) (uncredited))