Top billed cast

1. 

   Pete Smith

   Narrator (voice)

2. 

   Billy Bletcher

   Christopher Columbus (uncredited)

3. 

   Clara Pontoppidan

   Woman (archive footage) (uncredited)

4. 

   Valdemar Psilander

   Man (archive footage) (uncredited)

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Reviews

A review by talisencrw

Written by talisencrw on 2016-08-15

This was a bizarre but enjoyable extra on my DVD of 'Manhattan Melodrama' from TCM Spotlight's 5-film 'Myrna Loy and William Powell Collection'. It's simply silent cinema footage narrated by Pete Smith to lampoon then-current newsreels. This was the first of these I have seen--apparently ten were made (as listed on IMDb). First, the narrator satirizes Columbus discovering America; second, trailers of coming attractions are spoofed; and finally, 'The Perils of Arsenic Annie', a film by Super-Titanic Pictures, is shown, with the narration having little if anything to do with the scenes being sho...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• satire
• short film