A visit to Athens, Greece and the island of Rhodes.A visit to Athens, Greece and the island of Rhodes.A visit to Athens, Greece and the island of Rhodes.
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- James A. FitzPatrick(uncredited)
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[first scene: a panoramic view of Athens, Greece]
Narrator: In our troubled world, it is fitting that we should turn back the pages of history to ancient Athens, the mother of democracy, where we may still draw inspiration from what is left of the institutions that flourished when Athens was the world's beacon light of freedom.
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Fitzpatrick Works The Thesaurus
James Fitzpatrick sends the Technicolor cameras to Greece, to shoot ruined buildings on the Acropolis, men smoking water pipes, and fruit stands, because when you travel halfway across the world, your access to fresh fruit is uppermost on your mind.
He then gives us his usual lugubrious blather, sounding like he used a thesaurus to make sure he never used a short, familiar word when he could find an obscure one at least five syllables long. To emphasis these things, Leslie Kirk doodles endlessly on the pipe organ.
If you want to look at this one for the pictures -- which is, so far as I am concerned, the only reason to do so -- be advised that the copy of this Traveltalk that plays occasionally on TCM is in poor condition.
He then gives us his usual lugubrious blather, sounding like he used a thesaurus to make sure he never used a short, familiar word when he could find an obscure one at least five syllables long. To emphasis these things, Leslie Kirk doodles endlessly on the pipe organ.
If you want to look at this one for the pictures -- which is, so far as I am concerned, the only reason to do so -- be advised that the copy of this Traveltalk that plays occasionally on TCM is in poor condition.
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- boblipton
- Jan 4, 2020
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- James A. FitzPatrick's Traveltalks: A Word for the Greeks
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- Parthenon, Acropolis, Athens, Greece(Views of ruins of Acropolis)
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- Runtime8 minutes
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