This MGM Passing Parade series short recounts how English chemist John Walker invented the wooden friction match during the 1820s.
| Directing | Cy Endfield | Director |
| Production | John Nesbitt | Producer |
| Sound | Max Terr | Music |
| Art | Richard Duce | Art Direction |
| Sound | Albert Glasser | Orchestrator |
| Writing | Charles Larson | Writer |
| Camera | Harold Lipstein | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Tom Biggart | Editor |
