Blanche Sweet as Narrator (voice)

D. A. Pennebaker as Reader - Film as a Visual Newspaper (voice)

Miloš Forman as Reader - The Biddle Brothers (voice)

Louis Malle as Reader - Melies Catalogue (voice)

Robert Altman as Reader - 'Jack And The Beanstalk' Promo (voice)

Thomas A. Edison as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)

Edwin S. Porter as Himself (archive footage) (uncredited)