Word: traveloger
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Story of the Congo, Black God is no travelog but an interpretation of the spiritual conflicts that follow the encroachment of white culture on black folk. Here "Civilization" and "Paganism" meet at the ford of a small tributary of the Congo River where an "outpost of progress" is in the making. Not a novel for best-seller lists, Black God should be enjoyed by discriminating readers for its humor, its delicate prose...
...they let him escape on a cake of drifting ice. They are under the impression that the ice cake will reach some port of safety but to U. S. audiences it seems that Mala is headed directly for what the picture calls "the last Igloo." At once an exciting travelog and a threadbare melodrama. Eskimo is typical Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer nature lore, solemn, lively, expensive. Most exciting shot: Mala, when he has eaten his last husky, lying down on the snow in order to attract a hungry wolf, which he chokes to death, tears apart for supper...
This Is America. In the past five years there have been released in the U. S. more than a dozen travelog and animal films like Goona-Goona, Rango, Douglas Fairbanks' Around the World in 80 Minutes, through all of which ran a story's thread. From Russia have come nonfictional propaganda pictures (Turksib, Ten Days That Shook the World). The War Department and private producers have shown War films (Powder River, The Big Drive), and before that Emanuel Cohen of Pathe News exhibited a three-reeler called Flashes of the Past. Such was the meagre history...
...travelog of Oscar Wild's voyages among the barbarians of Eastern America is very choice, and give short mention to the time when the precieux lecture in Boston was broken up by fifty Phillistines from Harvard who charged the theatre, all dressed in purple velvet and yellow lilies. Oscar took it very nicely...
...jacket of his travelog, in which he tells of his recent peregrinations from Berlin to Budapest and back, Author Hergesheimer is pictured standing with a Berlin policeman pointing down the street. From Author Hergesheimer's expression if, is clear that there is another beer hall a little farther on. Almost exclusively from beer halls, famed restaurants and night clubs, does he survey the contemporary Central European scene. A characteristic vista: "I had dinner, alone, at the Restaurant Atelier, and sat for a long time over a plate of wild strawberries, a superlative Punch cigar, and mild Austrian brandy...