On screen
Cast
23 credited performers
Roddy McDowall
Narrator (voice)
Marc Wanamaker
Self
Artwork unavailable
Christopher Sanders
Character not listed
Artwork unavailable
Joy Noe
Mary Pickford
Artwork unavailable
Allan Viner
Character not listed
Artwork unavailable
L. Michael Wells
Character not listed
Richard Barthelmess
The Yellow Man (archive footage)
Charlie Chaplin
Self / Various roles (archive footage)
Artwork unavailable
Billy Compton
Self (archive footage)
Jack Dempsey
Self (archive footage)
George Eastman
Self (archive footage)
Thomas A. Edison
Self (archive footage)
Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Self
Douglas Fairbanks
Self (archive footage)
Lillian Gish
Lucy - The Girl (archive footage)
D.W. Griffith
Self (archive footage)
Robert Harron
Self (archive footage)
Florence Lawrence
Self (archive footage)
Mabel Normand
Self (archive footage)
Mary Pickford
Self / Various roles (archive footage)
Eugen Sandow
Self (archive footage)
Mack Swain
Big Jim McKay (archive footage)
Henry B. Walthall
Col. Ben Cameron (archive footage)