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Here's a post I made on this series back on Feb. 23, 2009 in response to a similar question:
I hope it's helpful to anyone interested in these shorts.
The proper name of this series of film travelogues was the "FitzPatrick TravelTalks" series (subtitled "The Voice of the Globe").
James A. FitzPatrick (1894-1980) started his series of one-reel travel shorts in 1930 and released them independently. He also produced other film shorts series, such as the "Movie Horoscope" series, "American Holiday" series, and "Music Master Series". He even got into feature film distribution in 1930 with his American release of the 1928 British silent movie "The Lady of the Lake", with sound effects added.
The "Movie Horoscope" shorts were one-reelers entitled "People Born in January" through
"People Born in December". Twelve were produced, one for each month, and released each month in 1930.
The "American Holiday" series consisted of ten shorts, each only three minutes long, focusing on a certain holiday. Each was released in time for the corresponding holiday, commencing in September 1930 for Labor Day, and covering ten holidays through Independence Day 1931.
The ''Music Master Series" was a series of 9 one-reel shorts featuring orchestral renditions of works by composers Bizet, Brahms, Liszt, Handel, Chopin, Beethoven, Strauss, Verdi, and Mendelssohn. They were released between September and December 1930.
In 1931 FitzPatrick started releasing his TravelTalk shorts through MGM. He discontinued those other three series (after all, he had pretty much run out of material, unless he wanted to cover more composers). He continued to release his Technicolor TravelTalks shorts through MGM at the rate of at least eight a year through 1951. Then for some reason MGM started calling the series "People on Parade". That lasted only a year, and so in 1952 it was back to the name "TravelTalks". Then, on February 12, 1954 MGM finally released the final entry in the long-running series, "Glimpses of Western Germany". The studio reissued six older entries over the next year, then finally retired the series.
FitzPatrick did other film work before the TravelTalks series, and occasionally during its run, but this basically covers his work on that series.
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> {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=musicalnovelty wrote:}{quote}
> So, who is Ernest Borgine? I see on TCM's Home Page that they are running his 2009 "Private Screenings".
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> He's an actor. He mostly did/does character-type roles--played a lot of cowboy/outlaws and rough and tough army types. He won an Oscar in the 50's for the film Marty, playing a man who finds love late in life, after he's pretty much given up ever finding Ms Right. Most recently he's been the voice of Mermaid Man on the kid's cartoon Spongebob Squarepants. (BTW the voice of Barnacle Boy is Tim Conway, best known from his work on the Carol Burnett Show in the 70's and 80's)
> Here's his IMDB page:
> http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000308/
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Of course I KNOW who he is!!
I was just picking on TCM for misspelling his name ("Borgine") on their Home Page!
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> {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote}
> *Birthdays today:*
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> *Ernest Borgnine is 94 today:*
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> Clip from Marty:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ItzdA6XzmSA
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> Johnny Guitar:
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> The Dirty Dozen:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0weydVs3t2Y
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> The Wild Bunch:
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> Ernies finest performance--Mermaid Man! (kidding!):
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZYY8QWYERs
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So, who is Ernest Borgine? I see on TCM's Home Page that they are running his 2009 "Private Screenings".
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Unlisted short after WAY OUT WEST early Wednesday morning:
THE TREE IN A TEST TUBE (1943) with Laurel & Hardy.
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> {quote:title=Kinokima wrote:}{quote}
> Okay this is kind of a silly post but I can't decide between these two movies and I wanted to see what others felt.
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> How do I decide between them? Everything else about the movies are pretty much equal to me.
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I one HAD TO choose only one, I'd go with "Captain Blood" but fortunately you can see both. So my recommendation is:
See them both!
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> {quote:title=DougieB wrote:}{quote}
> Unfortunately, I 've been doing "other stuff" lately, so I haven't had my usual laserlike focus on TCM. Hopefully, some of Robert's intros may clear this up. I notice that "Pick A Star" is an MGM release and I see from the data base that Hal Roach Studios and MGM are listed as producers (as well as Edward Sedgwick?), so right now I'm unclear about the actual status of the studio he founded and his ongoing role in it.
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I don't think there's anything different about PICK A STAR from all other Hal Roach features released before THERE GOES MY HEART in 1938 (that one being his first in a new distribution deal with United Artists). PICK A STAR was produced at and by Hal Roach Studios and released by MGM.
The credit "An Edward Sedgwick Production" may just be a hold-over from earlier days when sometimes a director credit was worded that way.
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> {quote:title=MuveeLuvr wrote:}{quote}
> Gee, thanks for telling us about unlisted shorts after they appear.
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That's JUST THE POINT!
If TCM would list the shorts on the upcoming schedule, as they'd been doing for the last few years we wouldn't have to wait until they've already aired to find out what they were!
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Doesn't the title of this thread "...could have dated" imply that the actress must be deceased? After all, if one lists still-living actresses, isn't there still a chance?
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> {quote:title=FredCDobbs wrote:}{quote}
> > {quote:title=danthemoviefan wrote:}{quote}
> > Did The Way of All Flesh ever appear on AMC back in the day?
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> IMDB says the film is "lost":
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> http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0019553/
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> "Emil Jannings is the only Oscar winner whose performance is "LOST." Jannings won on the basis of two performances this first year of the Academy and we are fortunate to still have the other, THE LAST COMMAND. He is magnificent in that. This original THE WAY OF ALL FLESH is among the "LOST" films. Also nominated for Best Picture - no positive or negative materials are known to exist."
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It is the 1940 version (not lost) not the 1927 version (lost) that is being mentioned as having been shown on AMC.
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> {quote:title=midnight08 wrote:}{quote}
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> "Kick In" was Clara Bow's last Paramount feature and it was a complete failure. It received dismal reviews and Clara had reportedly suffered a nervous breakdown during its filming. The film was quickly shelved and put away for over 70 years.
> In 2003 this film was restored by UCLA I believe and shown for the first time since 1931 at Film Forum.
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I was there!
February 11, 2003. It was double-billed with NO LIMIT (1931).
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Unlisted short after BACKFIRE on Monday afternoon:
VAN GOGH: DARKNESS INTO LIGHT (1956) (promo short for MGM movie LUST FOR LIFE).
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Yes, TCM programmers, please do resume the listing of shorts on the schedule. Or, can you tell us why you've decided to stop doing it?
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> {quote:title=PrinceSaliano wrote:}{quote}
> Bring 'em, TCM...
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You didn't ask this time which we've seen. But just as an idea of what's "out there" and not lost, here's what I have copies of:
ALIAS MARY DOW
BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN
CHINATOWN SQUAD
DIAMOND JIM
EAST OF JAVA
FIGHTING YOUTH
THE GOOD FAIRY
THE GREAT IMPERSONATION
THE IVORY HANDLED GUN
MISTER DYNAMITE
MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD
NIGHT LIFE OF THE GODS
THE NOTORIOUS GENTLEMAN
PRINCESS O'HARA
THE RAVEN
REMEMBER LAST NIGHT?
RENDEZVOUS AT MIDNIGHT
STONE OF SILVER CREEK
STORM OVER THE ANDES
STORMY
THREE KIDS AND A QUEEN
TRANSIENT LADY
WEREWOLF OF LONDON
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> {quote:title=infinite1 wrote:}{quote}
> Aside from the name similarity, which UNIVERSAL was known for, was EAST OF JAVA a sequel of sorts to 1931's EAST OF BORNEO? And are either of the two available on DVD?
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I've seen both of them, and though there are some similarities (including both starring Charles Bickford) I don't believe they are connected in any other way such as the second being intended as a sequel or a remake of the first.
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Unlisted short Saturday morning, Jan. 22 after the Bowery Boys movie:
THE CAR THAT BECAME A STAR (1964) - Promo short for the feature THE YELLOW ROLLS-ROYCE.
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> {quote:title=fredbaetz wrote:}{quote}
> The girl with Milland looks more like Fay Wray than Gail Russell..
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You're right!
But you know the reason why Fay wasn't in this movie? She was uninvited!
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> {quote:title=DougieB wrote:}{quote}
> I didn't catch it this time around, but I wonder if the same could have been true of Joan Crawford, who probably would have been working on "Flamingo Road" at the time. Maybe they just shuttled the cameo stars over from the other sets.
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Without looking again at each film, I can't comment on what she's wearing, but yes sure enough the shooting dates for FLAMINGO ROAD and IT'S A GREAT FEELING overlap by a couple of weeks in early September 1948.
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Unlisted short Friday morning after NO OTHER WOMAN:
HARRY RESER AND HIS ESKIMOS (1936) - Vitaphone.
Please TCM, can we get these back to being listed on the schedule?
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> {quote:title=redriver wrote:}{quote}
> My parents used to joke that Don Ameche invented the telephone, so closely was the actor associated with the role. In fact, in Howard Hawks' BALL OF FIRE, a speaker of slang calls the phone "the Ameche!"
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Listen for The Three Stooges' joke on "Don Ameche as inventor" in the opening scene of this 1943 Stooges short:
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> {quote:title=Ascotrudgeracer wrote:}{quote}
> Anyone notice? She wore the same dress in the party scene in "The Fountainhead" as she did in the cameo in "It's a Great Feeling" shown back-to-back this morning...black with white fur(?) along the bodice.
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I checked the shooting dates of both movies and sure enough they overlap by a few weeks in late August and early September 1948. Perhaps she filmed the scene for IT'S A GREAT FEELING during a day when she was also working on THE FOUNTAINHEAD.
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Unlisted short -
Wednesday night at 9:50 P.M. Eastern -
LOOKING AT LONDON (1946) - MGM "TravelTalks" series.
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> {quote:title=Swithin wrote:}{quote}
> You left out *King of the Zombies*, one of the most enjoyable Monogram films.
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I think he was trying to list some of the lesser-known and lesser-seen Monogram titles. I agree KING OF THE ZOMBIES is a great one, but it's never been hard to find. As I'm sure you know, it's even been shown on TCM several times.
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> {quote:title=CineMaven wrote:}{quote}
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> I share this date with Cary Grant. The documentary aired this afternoon shows how irreplaceable a star he was.
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> Thanx guys!
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Hello Maven!
From these previous posts, I have deduced that it must be your birthday.
Here's wishing you the VERY BEST!!!
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> {quote:title=traceyk65 wrote:}{quote}
> *Many Birthdays today:*
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>*Curly Howard*
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuTzsi6WT6Q&feature=related
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It's nice that Curly Howard is included in this tribute, but today is not his birthday, instead, it's the anniversary of his death in 1952.
Unlisted Short Aired Today
in Shorts
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Unlisted short after LOVE ME TONIGHT early Thursday morning:
BELOW ZERO (1930) starring Laurel & Hardy.
(And it was shown complete this time).