Watch magic on a stick FMovies. This MGM Passing Parade series short recounts how English chemist John Walker invented the wooden friction match during the 1820s.
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In nineteenth-century Łódź, Poland, three friends want to make a lot of money by building and investing in a textile factory. An...
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In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his...
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The amazing story of the animograph, a machine created in France in the sixties by the cartoonist and self-taught inventor Jean Dejoux (1922-2015),...
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In November 1947 forty-one people died in a massive blaze that gutted the huge Ballantynes Department Store complex in the heart of...
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True story of Alexander Graham Bell's invention of the telephone, inspired by his mother.
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Historical short showing how Eli Whitney (best known for the invention of the cotton gin) played a significant role in the introduction of mass...
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The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the...
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Rudolf Diesel, one of history’s greatest inventors, vanished into thin air on the eve of World War I. His revolutionary invention, the Diesel...
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A portrait of the inventor of the letterpress, who was a key figure in the history of mankind, but also an enthusiastic inventor, a daring...
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This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short takes a look at the typical American barbershop throughout the years.
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This Passing Parade series short chronicles the political life of Francisco Madero, who tried to bring democracy and land reform to Mexico.
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This MGM Passing Parade series short tells the story of Julian Poydras, whose encounter with a girl at Mardi Gras had a profound effect on his later...