Blanche Sweet

Character: Narrator (voice)

D. A. Pennebaker

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

Miloš Forman

Character: Reader - The Biddle Brothers (voice)

Louis Malle

Character: Reader - Melies Catalogue (voice)

Robert Altman

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

Thomas A. Edison

Character: Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Edwin S. Porter

Character: Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)