List of All Travel Lectures and Travelogues, 1892 Through 1970
Page 3 of 4: 1931-1950

Continuing the official list of all of the Burton Holmes company lecture and show titles, originally compiled by the Burton Holmes company. Thanks again to Pam Wintle, archivist at the Human Studies Film Archives of the Smithsonian Institution.

1931-32

  • The Real Hollywood
  • Switzerland
  • Northern Europe
  • All Over Italy
  • Paris and the Colonial Exposition

1933. Note: all further show periods are given as single years.

  • Around the World
  • Bali—the Last Paradise
  • South of France
  • Vienna Life
  • Europe on a Budget—1932

1934

  • Chicago World's Fair
  • New Mediterranean Cruise
  • Motoring Through Java
  • A New World's Cruise
  • The New Italy

1935

  • Soviet Russia
  • London and England
  • All Over Spain
  • Alluring Italy
  • Vienna and Austria

1936

  • The Magic of Mexico
  • South America—West Coast
  • South America—East Coast
  • Normandy and Brittany
  • What I Saw in Ethiopia

1937

  • England, Wales, and Scotland
  • Troubled Spain
  • Switzerland
  • All Over France
  • New and Old Japan

1938

  • Brightest South Africa
  • Italy and the New Roman Empire
  • The World-Wide British Empire
  • Picturesque Germany
  • Rio—Mexico—The Andes

1939

  • West Indies I
  • West Indies II
  • Glorious Norway
  • Beautiful Sweden
  • The New Ireland of Today

1940

  • Heroic Friendly Finland
  • Around the World a Different Way
  • Great Little Holland
  • Mediterranean Odyssey Cruise
  • More About Sweden

1941

  • Happy Hawaii
  • Pageant of Mexico
  • South America
  • Adventures of Richard Halliburton
  • In Our United States

1942: Colored Slides, 35mm black-and-white film, and Kodachrome color film (16mm)

  • Amazing Arizona
  • Alaska and the Yukon
  • Canadian Rockies
  • Dutch East Indies
  • Captive Capitals

1943: Colored Slides, 35mm black-and-white film, and Kodachrome color film (16mm)

  • The Old South
  • Our Fronts in North Africa
  • New England
  • Our Russian Allies
  • Glorious Glacier Park

1944: Colored Slides, 35mm black-and-white film, and Kodachrome color movie film (16mm)

  • Today's Mexico
  • Mexico City
  • Beautiful Italy
  • Colorado
  • Abroad at Home

1945: This lecture and all further lectures presented entirely in Kodachrome color movie film (16mm)

  • Utah
  • Colorado River
  • National Parks
  • Yucutan
  • Guatemala

1946

  • California
  • Hawaii
  • Quebec and Gaspé

1947

  • Rio de Janeiro
  • Mississippi River
  • Mexico! Brand New
  • Pacific Northwest
  • Southern California

1948

  • Sunny Florida
  • Fabulous Florida
  • Road to Panama
  • Amazing Arizona
  • Canadian Rockies

1949

  • Virginia
  • Sweden
  • Pageant of India
  • Switzerland
  • New Mexico

1950

  • Paris
  • Hawaii
  • Norway
  • Around the World
  • Alaska

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Update history: This page created 9 May 2004. Revised 27 November 2006.