Added Attractions: The Hollywood Shorts Story (2002)

7.0/10 86 min Documentary TV Movie

Overview

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.

Cast

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)

Joe Franklin

Self (uncredited)

Sylvia Froos

Self (uncredited)

Lorna Gray

Self (uncredited)

Bruce Helford

Self (uncredited)

Gregory Hines

Self (uncredited)

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