Traveltalks goes to Colorado and starts in Denver. They visit the grave and memorial to Buffalo Bill and then Will Rogers. Then it's mountains, the parks, and the rivers. There is a bit of colors like the goldfish and the rainbow in the waterfall. Finally, there are the cliff dwellings of the ancient native Americans. This is perfectly fine. It's nothing specular but it all looks pretty good. It's a solid Traveltalks.
4 Reviews
Nice Pictures
boblipton12 December 2020
James A. Fitzpatrick sends the Technicolor cameras unde the supervision of cameraman Virgil Miller to Colorado; once again, I remind the people who have read others of my reviews of the Traveltalks during the Second World War, that there was a war going on, and long-distance travel was risky, so the MGM travelogues mostly stuck to the US, with occasional trips to Mexico and Canada.
Once the camera gets out of Denver, there are a lot of shots taken from a moving car. There's some nice pictures in very good shape on the print that plays on Turner Classic Movies.
Once the camera gets out of Denver, there are a lot of shots taken from a moving car. There's some nice pictures in very good shape on the print that plays on Turner Classic Movies.
Colorado is even more Colorful now!
tadpole-596-91825614 March 2013
Warning: Spoilers
I only saw this 9:03.67-minute short once on TCM, but I cannot remember noticing very many minority people in it, even though Native Americans must have been as prevalent in 1944 as today in the so-called Rocky Mountain State. The historical figures highlighted with mentions and pictures here are Buffalo Bill and Will Rogers, two old white guys. People born in the past 30 years probably have not heard of either one, though I was listening to an oldies station driving across Colorado mountain passes LEGALLY at 75 mph, and there was a song that went something like "Hey, Buffalo Bill, who did you kill" or "what did you kill." I understand from a magazine article in the Emergency Care waiting room that he almost killed enough buffalo by himself in his first job for the railroad moguls that they nearly went extinct, which is a good thing for a state with 75 mph speed limits: hitting a full-size bull at that speed in a Smart Car would smart (unless you could steer between its legs!).
TravelTalks
Michael_Elliott15 May 2011
Colorful Colorado (1944)
*** (out of 4)
One of the better entries in MGM's TravelTalks series takes us to Colorado where we get a quick history of the state before seeing some of the famous places there including a stop by the grave of Buffalo Bill. We also see the Will Rogers Memorial in Colorado Springs as well as the Red Rock Mountains. Other things we learn is the fact that over 100,000 fishing license are given each year, which works out good because there are over 6,000 miles of streams and millions of fish are released in them each year. If you're a fan of the series then you know we get some beautiful Technicolor that brings all of this stuff to life and of course James Fitzpatrick's narration helps tell the stories. He even gets a director's credit here and there's no question that he knows what to film and how to bring it to life. The beautiful Technicolor really makes this entry work because there's so much beautiful in the land that you can't help but be soaked up into everything you're watching.
*** (out of 4)
One of the better entries in MGM's TravelTalks series takes us to Colorado where we get a quick history of the state before seeing some of the famous places there including a stop by the grave of Buffalo Bill. We also see the Will Rogers Memorial in Colorado Springs as well as the Red Rock Mountains. Other things we learn is the fact that over 100,000 fishing license are given each year, which works out good because there are over 6,000 miles of streams and millions of fish are released in them each year. If you're a fan of the series then you know we get some beautiful Technicolor that brings all of this stuff to life and of course James Fitzpatrick's narration helps tell the stories. He even gets a director's credit here and there's no question that he knows what to film and how to bring it to life. The beautiful Technicolor really makes this entry work because there's so much beautiful in the land that you can't help but be soaked up into everything you're watching.
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