Romance of Celluloid

The Romance of Celluloid
StarringAdrian
Jack Dawn
Cliff Edwards
Clark Gable
Gladys George
Virginia Grey
Don Loomis
Robert Montgomery
Maureen O'Sullivan
Jessie Ralph
Rosalind Russell
Herbert Stothart
Narrated byFrank Whitbeck
Distributed byMetro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release date
  • August 27, 1937 (1937-08-27)
Running time
10 minutes
CountryUnited States

The Romance of Celluloid is a 1937 short black and white documentary film, narrated by Frank Whitbeck, which goes behind the scenes to look at the manufacture of film and the making of motion pictures. The film was the first of the studio's Romance of Celluloid series which also included:[1]

  • Another Romance of Celluloid (1938)
  • From the Ends of the Earth: Another Romance of Celluloid (1939)
  • Electrical Power: Another Romance of Celluloid (1939)
  • A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound (1940)
  • A New Romance of Celluloid: Hollywood; Style Center of the World (1940)
  • A New Romance of Celluloid: You Can't Fool a Camera (1941)
  • A New Romance of Celluloid: Personalities (1942)
  • A New Romance of Celluloid: We Must Have Music (1942)[a]
  • Twenty Years After: A New Romance of Celluloid (1944)
  1. ^ "THE ROMANCE OF CELLULOID, 1937". The National Archives. Retrieved 2010-02-18.
  2. ^ Early Judy Garland Rarities on YouTube; see 9:35 time mark
  3. ^ Judy Garland - We Must Have Music (deleted from Ziegfeld Girl, 1941) on YouTube
  4. ^ We Must Have Music (documentary of movie music) on YouTube


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