James A. Fitzpatrick sends the Technicolor camera to the island of Ceylon. To the tune of Tchakovski's "Waltz of the Flowers", he shuttles from Colombo to Kandy, pausing to look at elephants, rubber trees, dancers, and flowers, making lugubrious jokes about Kandy having nothing to do with sweets. Good thing he told us.
The cinematographer on this short is Hone Glendinning. He was in charge of the camera on about 35 feature films, but every short he received the credit for was one of the Traveltalks. He does a nice job, although the color on the copy I looked at on TCM was a bit off. At least the pictures kept my mind off Fitzpatrick's mildly astonished reading of facts pulled from an almanac.
The cinematographer on this short is Hone Glendinning. He was in charge of the camera on about 35 feature films, but every short he received the credit for was one of the Traveltalks. He does a nice job, although the color on the copy I looked at on TCM was a bit off. At least the pictures kept my mind off Fitzpatrick's mildly astonished reading of facts pulled from an almanac.
