01 Jan 1944
Twenty Years After
This short celebrates the 20th anniversary of MGM. Segments are shown from several early hits, then from a number of 1944 releases.
Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
In the spring of 1903, on a whim and a fifty-dollar bet, Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson set off from San Francisco in a 20-horsepower Winton touring car hoping to become the first person to cross the United States in the new-fangled "horseless carriage." Most people doubted that the automobile had much of a future. Jackson's trip would prove them wrong.
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Tom Hanks Horatio Nelson Jackson (voice)
Keith David Narrator (voice)
Adam Arkin Other Voices (voice)
Philip Bosco Other Voices (voice)
John Cullum Other Voices (voice)
Amy Madigan Other Voices (voice)
Eli Wallach Other Voices (voice)
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