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.
Rated NR | Length 86 minutes
Chevy Chase | Kenneth Anger | Richard L. Bare | Nat Benchley | Sid Caesar | Phyllis Coates | Tim Conway | Walter Cronkite | Dorothy DeBorba | William Dunster | Raymond Fielding | Joe Franklin | Sylvia Froos | Richard Goldstone | Lorna Gray | Sanford Green | Bruce Helford | Robert Henabery | Gregory Hines | Ron Hutchinson | Illinois Jacquet | Robert Lees | Frank Lillo | Howie Mandel | Rose Marie | Branford Marsalis | Dorothy Morris | Bob Newhart | Joseph M. Newman | Fayard Nicholas | Hal Roach | George Sidney | Jay R. Smith | Vola Vale | Jacqueline Taylor | Sam White | Thelma White | Toby Wing | Joe DeRita | Deanna Durbin | Larry Fine | Judy Garland | Oliver Hardy | Moe Howard | Stan Laurel | Harold Lloyd | Howard Morris | Harold Nicholas | Mack Sennett | Pete Smith