This film was first telecast in Atlanta Saturday 1 January 1949 on WSB (Channel 8).
Features publicity photographs and brief movie clips of various silent film stars. Marie Dressler and Johnny Hines romp through scenes from the 1917 comedy Tillie Wakes Up , after which cowboy star William S. Hart and comedians Mack Sennett and Ford Sterling are shown, and Lillian Gish and Henry B. Walthall fight in Birth of a Nation . Quick clips follow of Mae Murray, Mabel Normand, Wallace Reid, Dorothy Mackaill, John Gilbert, Laura LaPlante, Dolores Costello, Corrine Griffith, Rudolph Valentino, Lois Wilson, Fatty Arbuckle and Leatrice Joy. The rapid onslaught of stars continues with George Arliss, Patsy Ruth-Miller, Theodore Roberts, Colleen Moore and screen couple Ronald Colman and Blanche Sweet. Lon Chaney appears in a scene from the 1920 picture Outside the Law . Next, Alice White, Charles Ray, Constance Talmadge, Clara Bow, Betty Bronson, Eugene O'Brien, Dolores Del Rio, Betty Compson, Eddie Cantor, Marion Davies in Janice Meredith, Estelle Taylor, Harold Lloyd and Pola Negri are featured. Tom Mix and Tony, The Black Stallion, appear, and then Charlie Chaplin and Mack Swain are shown in a scene from The Gold Rush . A Lionel Barrymore clip is shown, followed by Mary Pickford in The New York Hat , Douglas Fairbanks fighting on a staircase, and finally Will Rogers speaking at the 1932 Democratic Convention.