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Magic on a Stick

8.0(2)
19460h 10mHD
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This MGM Passing Parade series short recounts how English chemist John Walker invented the wooden friction match during the 1820s.

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Cast

John Nesbitt

John Nesbitt

Narrator (voice)

Paul Langton

Paul Langton

John Walker (uncredited)

Jacqueline White

Jacqueline White

Mrs. John Walker (uncredited)

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