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Magic on a Stick

Magic on a Stick1946

★8.010 minHistory

This MGM Passing Parade series short recounts how English chemist John Walker invented the wooden friction match during the 1820s.

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Stars

John Nesbitt Paul Langton Jacqueline White

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John Nesbitt
as Narrator (voice)
Paul Langton
as John Walker (uncredited)
Jacqueline White
as Mrs. John Walker (uncredited)

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