Character Name : Narrator (voice)

Original Name : Blanche Sweet

Gender : Female

Character Name : Reader - Film as a Visual Newspaper (voice)

Original Name : D. A. Pennebaker

Gender : Male

Character Name : Reader - The Biddle Brothers (voice)

Original Name : Miloš Forman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Reader - Melies Catalogue (voice)

Original Name : Louis Malle

Gender : Male

Character Name : Reader - 'Jack And The Beanstalk' Promo (voice)

Original Name : Robert Altman

Gender : Male

Character Name : Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Original Name : Thomas A. Edison

Gender : Male

Character Name : Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Original Name : Edwin S. Porter

Gender : Male