. . . you'll probably find it ROAMING THROUGH NORTHERN IRELAND. As the narrator states, in this neglected corner of the globe people are so poor that they have to burn turf to heat their homes. Here in America, electricity (generated primarily from coal or dams), natural gas, propane, butane, kerosene, nuclear, geothermal, wind, solar, and wood heat is so plentiful that we allow horses to run on OUR turf. (Leave it to the Irish to give Secretariat a hot-hoof!) Northern Ireland has no caverns, so the would-be Irish cavemen had to cut down and burn all of the island's trees to keep warm. (Neighboring Scotland later invented golf, and the "Emerald Isle" probably would have instigated baseball, except that they had no wood with which to whittle into bats.) According to the ROAMING THROUGH NORTHERN IRELAND voiceover dude, Irish organs are hewn from volcanic rock. They are so hard to play, organists only attempt to do so about every seven years. Two ditties make up the entire song book for Irish organists. Germany, on the other hand, has plenty of wood which instrument makers can fashion into organ pipes. It's no accident that the Bach family settled there, rather than in Ireland!
3 Reviews
Impressed By The Centuries
boblipton17 March 2020
James A.Fitzpatrick sends the Technicolor cameras to Northern Ireland under the control of cameramen Virgil Miller and S.D. Onions to natter on about the beauties of the land and the long history of Ireland. Ulster, as this district was known in times gone by, when people spoke in a circumlocutionary manner, like like narrators talking over travelogues of pretty yet unrecognized landscapes, with the odd names giving people the impression that he knew what he was talking about...... where was I? What was I saying?
Oh, yes. Ireland. Fitzpatrick talks over this one in a calmer manner than he had in the days before the Second World War, as if he knows the words, but not how they add up together in sentences. Anyway, the pictures in this short subject were in pretty good shape when I saw them this afternoon on Turner Classic Movies.
Oh, yes. Ireland. Fitzpatrick talks over this one in a calmer manner than he had in the days before the Second World War, as if he knows the words, but not how they add up together in sentences. Anyway, the pictures in this short subject were in pretty good shape when I saw them this afternoon on Turner Classic Movies.
TravelTalk
Michael_Elliott31 March 2009
Roaming Through Northern Ireland (1949)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
TravelTalk entry this time takes a look at Ireland, which is a location the series hit many, many times. This short pretty much takes a look at stuff like the land, the hills, the ocean, rivers and so on. With that in mind on a visual level the short is quite beautiful but the print shown on Turner Classic Movies is rather beat up and faded so the Technicolor really isn't given a chance to shine but at least we have a channel to play rarer films like this. It should once again be noted that today's internet will turn up better stuff so it's important to keep in mind when this was made and remember that, for the time, this was probably very entertaining stuff to people, which is probably why this series ran for so long.
** 1/2 (out of 4)
TravelTalk entry this time takes a look at Ireland, which is a location the series hit many, many times. This short pretty much takes a look at stuff like the land, the hills, the ocean, rivers and so on. With that in mind on a visual level the short is quite beautiful but the print shown on Turner Classic Movies is rather beat up and faded so the Technicolor really isn't given a chance to shine but at least we have a channel to play rarer films like this. It should once again be noted that today's internet will turn up better stuff so it's important to keep in mind when this was made and remember that, for the time, this was probably very entertaining stuff to people, which is probably why this series ran for so long.
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