James Fitzpatrick sends the Technicolor cameras to Scotland under the direction of Virgil Miller and S. D. Onions. After calling Edinburgh a 'Wonder City', we get a more general look around the country, with discussions of Andrew Carnegie, Sir Walter Scott, and Robert Burns. For some reason, Fitzpatrick's tone is less stentorian and more plodding.
While the images would appear to be quite lovely, a hallmark of the long-running TRAVELTALKS series of travelogue, the copy that plays on Turner Classic Movies is is rather fuzzy, as if blown up from a 16mm print; there is some compensation in the color values, yielding an oil-painting quality to the short.
While the images would appear to be quite lovely, a hallmark of the long-running TRAVELTALKS series of travelogue, the copy that plays on Turner Classic Movies is is rather fuzzy, as if blown up from a 16mm print; there is some compensation in the color values, yielding an oil-painting quality to the short.