Movies: James A. FitzPatrick

James A. FitzPatrick tour of Egypt in 1934 for his Traveltalks series....

Fitzpatrick Traveltalks...

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A Traveltalk visit to Buenos Aires. At the time, it was the most populous city in South America....

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The ugly duckling of the title is Hans Christian Andersen, the author who wrote fairy tales that still delight readers to this day. This Traveltalk series entry tells the story of Andersen's life. We visit the city of his birth and journey to other p...

This Traveltalk visits Zeeland, a province of the Netherlands. Traditional costumes and architecture abound and cleanliness is a hallmark of local life. They paint their houses every year and Saturday is the great cleaning day. Dog carts are widely u...

This MGM short, part of James A. Fitzpatrick's Traveltalk series, takes the viewer to the capital of British India, Delhi. Visits to mosques and temples are followed by a tour of the shopping district, Chandni Chowk. The streets are filled bullock ca...

This Traveltalk series short begins in the Wenatchee River valley, where apples are the chief commercial crop. In Spokane, we see the Sunken Gardens (later called the John W. Duncan Gardens) in Manito Park. In Olympia, the campus of the state capitol...

This Traveltalk entry looks at some natural wonders of the western United States, including the Grand Canyon and the Devil's Tower. The last stop on the tour, an "unnatural wonder," is the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, where sculptor Gutzon Borgl...

This episode of Traveltalks goes to Stockholm, the capital of Sweden. The focus is on several aspects of Swedish life and it's noted that Stockholm is a city without slums or beggars. Built on the mainland and an archipelago of 13 islands, the city h...

James A. FitzPatrick tour through the South Sea islands of Hawaii, Tahiti, Rarotonga, and Sydney, Australia....

A short about Nathaniel Hawthorne directed by documentary maker James A. FitzPatrick....

A Traveltalk visit to Norway's fjords and the Lapplanders in the northern latitudes....

No. 2 in the "James FitzPatrick's Travel Talks" series....