Traveltalks actually gets out of the States during wartime but they only make it to Canada. It starts on a farm. It passes by Toronto and heads to Ottawa. If only he would pronounce Rideau Canal correctly. They spend most of the episode sightseeing around Ottawa. It's not that exciting but it has lots of buildings. They really should go inside and give something more than a passing tourist. Well, they're not lying. It's giving us glimpses.
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America's great northern threat, Canada, seems to be all sweetness and light . . .
tadpole-596-91825626 May 2021
Warning: Spoilers
. . . according to the.blowhard bozo blathering banalities throughout GLIMPSES OF ONTARIO. Despite spending most of his glimpse traipsing around on a dairy farm, this nattering nabob of naivety manages to discover that the southbound military invasion canals traversing Ontario make those on Mars look like dried out cricks by way of comparison. As the unnatural narrator gushes over this nincompoop nation's Book of the Dead from the first World War, there's nary a word to indicate that this Northern Horde was fighting against Uncle Sam's Dough Boys "over there." When a dude's been back in Detroit from an ill-advised slumming party through Windsor, and ruefully remarks that "I caught a case of Canadian from her," all of his older and wiser fellow Yankees know immediately that he's suffering from a severe V-Dee infection. It sounds like this sort of thing struck down the GLIMPSES voice-over clown, and that it went immediately to his brain.
Toronto Has 850,000 People
boblipton23 May 2021
It being wartime, the Traveltalks didn't travel much, making it up with James A. Fitzpatrick's drivel. Here, however, he sends the Technicolor cameras abroad under William Steiner, all the way to Canada.
The first third of this one spends its time on the farm of Ontario Premier Mitchell Hepburn, who would die later that year, before considering the other typical tourist attractions that the series usually showed. There are none of the colorful natives that are usually featured, except for a few red-jacketed Mounties in long shot.
The copy of this film that plays on Turner classic Movies is in the best condition of any I have seen.
The first third of this one spends its time on the farm of Ontario Premier Mitchell Hepburn, who would die later that year, before considering the other typical tourist attractions that the series usually showed. There are none of the colorful natives that are usually featured, except for a few red-jacketed Mounties in long shot.
The copy of this film that plays on Turner classic Movies is in the best condition of any I have seen.
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