The News Parade
Fox sent a fictional newsreel cameraman from New York to Palm Beach and Havana, released the globe-trotting comedy and then lost every known print.
Quick facts
- Existence state
- Officially Gone
- Peak stage
- general availability
- Research confidence
- high
- Last verified
What it was
A formally released silent comedy directed by David Butler and starring Nick Stuart and Sally Phipps.
A competitive newsreel cameraman follows assignments and romance across several cities while trying to capture headline footage.
Existence timeline
The production schedules New York exteriors before moving west.
The company travels for newsreel-style location material.
Fox advertising reports that production has wrapped.
The feature reaches ordinary public exhibition.
No archive reports a surviving release copy.
The National Film Preservation Board includes the film on its lost-feature list.
Why it ended
No surviving archival print is known, and the National Film Preservation Board lists the feature among lost American silent films.
Last confirmed trace
The AFI production history, contemporary trade reviews, advertisements and still images document the vanished release.
What it left behind
The film records Hollywood's fascination with the increasingly mobile newsreel profession just before synchronised sound transformed reporting and cinema.
How we classified it
The archive unit reached normal public release or operation and is no longer obtainable in its original public form.
Verified normal public availability maps to 100 under Arrival Score V1.
Sources & verification
Last reviewed 2026-08-01. Sources are linked so readers can inspect the evidence directly.