User: PseudoSkull
File: The Big Parade (1925, trailer).webm
Author: King Wallis Vidor
Publisher: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Year: 1925
PD: PD/US|1982
Note: The official trailer to ''The Big Parade''
Cat: Film trailers
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00:02
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And now——
<br><br>
{{gap}}{{xxxx-larger|{{cursive|At last''!''}}}}
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00:02
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{{c|THE MOST IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT THE MANAGEMENT OF THIS THEATRE HAS EVER MADE—}}
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00:07-00:08
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{{c|
{{larger|AT LAST''!''}}
<br><br>
America's<br>beloved<br>photoplay masterpiece
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00:12
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{{c|{{xx-larger|'''"THE<br>BIG<br>PARADE"'''}}}}
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00:15
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The world has echoed with the fame of this magnificent drama of the screen''!''
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00:21-00:22
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{{c|
Now it comes to you
<br>
{{smaller|''with the happy pride of this theatre which is selected to present it—''}}
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00:29
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{{c|The {{larger|power}} of its throbbing love story defies even the mighty thunders of warring nations—}}
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00:33
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It is the
<br>
{{gap}}{{xx-larger|EPIC}}
<br>
{{gap|3em}}{{smaller|of}}
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{{gap|4em}}{{x-larger|{{cursive|humanity—}}}}
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00:37-00:43
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{{smaller|Bringing us back tender recollections of our boys marching off to the Great Adventure, laughing, swearing, romancing}}
<br>
{{gap}}{{larger|gone''!''}}
<br>
{{gap|5em}}on the grandest lark of history''!''
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00:48
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{{c|
{{smaller|Metro-{{cursive|Goldwyn}}-Mayer}}
<br />
{{xx-smaller|''PRESENTS''}}
<br />
JOHN GILBERT
<br>
{{xx-smaller|IN}}
<br>
KING VIDOR'S PRODUCTION
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{{xx-larger|{{cursive|The}} BIG PARADE}}
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{{x-smaller|''By''}} {{smaller|LAURENCE STALLINGS}}
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{{xx-smaller|WITH}}
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{{smaller|RENEE ADOREE}}
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{{italic block|
COPYRIGHT MCMXXV IN U.S.A. BY METRO-GOLDWYN-MAYER<br />
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED UNDER<br />
[[Buenos Aires Convention|INTERNATIONAL CONVENTION OF BUENOS AIRES]]<br />
CONTROLLED BY LOEW'S INCORPORATED<br>
PASSED BY THE NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW
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{{xx-smaller block|ARS GRATIA ARTIS<br /><br />A<br />Metro-{{cursive|Goldwyn}}-Mayer<br />PICTURE}}
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00:52-00:53
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{{c|{{cursive|Nothing}} BIGGER<br><br>{{lsp|0.5em|has ever been shown on stage or screen}}}}
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00:56-00:57
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{{c|{{larger|No}} {{xxx-larger|{{cursive|Bigger}}}} SUCCESS<br><br>has ever been known on the Broadways of the world''!''}}
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01:17
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BIGGEST OF ALL<br>
{{gap}}In Its Storied Beauty of Human Beings -
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01:22
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{{li|W}}hoever they were—<br>who went ''Over There''
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01:54-01:56
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{{c|No {{larger|BIGGER}} romance was ever ''dreamed''}}
{{ppoem|
than that of the men
:who left the kiss of love
:for the lips of ''Death!''
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02:00-02:02
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{{c|No {{larger|BIGGER}} drama was ever ''born''}}
{{ppoem|
than that of
:the ''Hell of War''
::''torn wide open''
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02:09
{{ft/s|
{{c|{{smaller|{{lsp|0.1em|in}}}}<br>"{{xx-larger|THE}} {{xxxx-larger|BIG PARADE}}"}}
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02:12
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{{c|
Directed by
<br>
{{uc|[[Author:King Vidor|King Vidor]]}}
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02:15
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{{ppoem|
"{{li|T}}here was glory in their going
:There was splendor in their stride
For their souls were marching-marching
:To the measured tramp of pride
<br>
''And their hearts were singing-singing''
''As they fought, and fell, and died.''"
{{right inline|{{smaller|G. de Grandcourt}}}}
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