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

John Nesbitt
Narrator (voice)

Paul Langton
John Walker (uncredited)

Jacqueline White
Mrs. John Walker (uncredited)
Mr. Whitney Had a Notion
1949