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  • Nothing awkward. Lowell Thomas was a great narrator.

  • totanka

  • No salt? How did they do body shots?!

    Someone at the university must have had a friend in Hollywood or at Movietone News.

  • @7777TubeSurfer

    body shots?

  • wow, salt is unheard of!! Why do they cage a bird??

  • I agree, there's nothing awkward about the narration. This is a slick production for a pre-war film. The aerial footage is fantastic as a contemporaneous record. Travelogue-style films were the high-tech way of learning about other parts of the world, since at the time, no one is flying halfway around the world in less than half a day on a comfortable jetliner.

    Other continents, regardless of their cultures and people, are a mystery to the rest of the world until years later.

  • That was hardly awkward narration - that is Lowell Thomas!

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