Overview
This MGM Passing Parade series short recounts how English chemist John Walker invented the wooden friction match during the 1820s.
Director
Cy Endfield
Cast
John Nesbitt
Narrator (voice)
Paul Langton
John Walker (uncredited)
Jacqueline White
Mrs. John Walker (uncredited)
Origin:US
Languages:en
More Like This
Kherson: Human Safari
2025
The Electrical Life of Louis Wain
2021
The Face Behind the Mask
1938
The Animograph, or I Was Born in a Shoebox
2022
Dreams
1940
The Promised Land
1975
Gangs of New York
2002
Flag of Mercy
1942
Ablaze
2019
Mr. Whitney Had a Notion
1949
A Film in the Theatre
2022
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
1939