List of All Travel Lectures and Travelogues, 1892 Through 1970 Page 1 of 4: 1892-1911
We present here an official list of all of the lecture and show titles, with some additional information on what was presented and in which formats, originally compiled by the Burton Holmes company and sent out on Burton Holmes Travelogues letterhead. For this list we are indebted to Pam Wintle, archivist at the Human Studies Film Archives of the Smithsonian Institution.
1892: Hand-colored slides
- Japanthe Country
- Japanthe Cities
1893: Hand-colored slides
- In Algeria
- Oases of the Algerian Sahara
- Into Morocco
- Heart of the Moorish Empire
- Through the Real Japan
1894: Hand-colored slides
- Round About Paris
- Cycling Through Corsica
- Southern Spain
- Oases of the Algerian Sahara
- Heart of the Moorish Empire
1895-6: Hand-colored slides
- The Olympic Games in Athens
- Grecian Journeys
- Yellowstone Park
1897-8: Hand-colored slides, and short motion pictures (unrelated to the topics) shot on 60mm film. First showing of motion pictures on any lecture platform.
- Wonders of Thessaly
- Cycling Through Corsica
- Cities of the Barbary Coast
- Oases of the Algerian Sahara
- More About Japan
1898-9: Hand-colored slides, and films of Hawaii and Grand Canyon used in conjunction with the slide lectures. First time ever for topical films used in lectures.
- The Hawaiian Islands
- Into Morocco
- FezMetropolis of the Moors
- Grecian Journeys
- The Grand Canyon of Arizona
1899-1900: Slides in color, with motion picture interludes (60mm motion pictures)
- Manila
- Japan Revisited
- Round About Paris
- The Grand Canyon
- Moki Land (Hopi Land)
1900-01: Slides in color, and 60mm motion pictures
- The Edge of China
- Moki Land
- The Paris Exposition
- Wonders of Thessaly
- Oberammergau
1901-02: Slides in color and 60mm motion pictures
- St. Petersburg
- Moscow
- Siberia
- Peking
- SeoulCapital of Korea
1902-03: Colored slides, and 35mm motion pictures, in black-and-white [this combination used until 1940]
- Portugal
- Denmark
- Sweden
- Norway I
- Norway II
1903-04
- The Yosemite Valley
- The Yellowstone Park
- The Grand Canyon
- Alaska the Beautiful
- The Golden Klondike
1904-05
- In London
- Round About London
- Beautiful Ireland
- The Russian Empire
- Japan
1905-06. Note: Played in Orchestra Hall Oct. 11 to Nov. 11
- Port Arthur
- The Passion Play
- The Tyrolian Alps
- Switzerland I
- Switzerland II
1906-07. Note: Played in Orchestra Hall Nov. 14 to Dec. 15, 1907
- In Cairo
- The Nile
- Athens
- Naples
- Vesuvius
1907-08
- Berlin
- Vienna
- Paris
- London
- Fez
1908-09
- Our Own Hawaii
- Japan Now I
- Japan Now II
- Java
- More About Paris
1909-1910
- Ceylon
- Egypt
- Sicily
- Italy
- Norway
1910-11
- Munich and Bavaria
- The Passion Play
- The Real Bohemia
- Motoring in Germany
- Two Ways Around the World
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Update history: This page created 9 May 2004. Revised 27 November 2006.
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