This MGM Passing Parade series short recounts how English chemist John Walker invented the wooden friction match during the 1820s.
Directed by Cy Endfield
User score
2 votes
Released
January 19, 1946
10m
English
John Nesbitt
Narrator (voice)
Paul Langton
John Walker (uncredited)
Jacqueline White
Mrs. John Walker (uncredited)
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