The last THE PASSING PARADE produced and narrated by John Nesbitt for MGM is about the city of Mooseheart, a town built to give orphans not just enough food to eat, not just a place to live, but a home. It was conceived by the Loyal Order of the Moose as a home for members' widows and orphans and opened in 1913. Still located in Kane County, Illinois, it's still open and doing its good work.
Nesbitt had been doing The Passing Parade, not only for MGM, but as a radio feature, for a dozen years at this point. Given the decline in full-program movie theaters due to the onslaught of television, the production companies were cutting back. Louis B. Mayer was fighting for control of MGM, and ceasing to produce short subjects like these, allowing more than seventy episodes to serve the theaters, was seen as a good economy measure.
Nesbitt had been doing The Passing Parade, not only for MGM, but as a radio feature, for a dozen years at this point. Given the decline in full-program movie theaters due to the onslaught of television, the production companies were cutting back. Louis B. Mayer was fighting for control of MGM, and ceasing to produce short subjects like these, allowing more than seventy episodes to serve the theaters, was seen as a good economy measure.