Word: travelogy
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...contemporary writers. Having done his part by the South in "Stars Fell on Alabama", an engaging potpourri of myths, sketches, and experiences of Alabama, he turns to his native state in the present instance in a somewhat confused and confusing piece of copy that is part rationale, part travelog, part apology, part local-color journalism, but which holds the reader's interest throughout...
...literary works of Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt were augmented by the publication of a juvenile travelog entitled A Trip to Washington With Bobby and Betty...
...into pictures made on location comes from their producers' natural reluctance to throw away bits of local color even when these impede their story. Sanders of the River, consequently, is full of native war dances, canoe-paddling, realistic spear-shaking and drum-beating which, no doubt interesting in a travelog, have no place in this narrative. It is distinguished by Michael Spolianski's curious but usually effective musical score, by Paul Robeson's vocalizations of lyrics which sound alarmingly like U.S. college football songs, and by Negro acting which is no less genuine because most of the performers have marked...
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...