Movies: James A. FitzPatrick

This film visits many of the neighborhoods and landmarks on Manhattan Island and occasionally includes a history lesson. The neighborhoods include the Bowery, Chinatown, Herald Square, and Times Square. Some of the architectural highlights are the Em...

This Traveltalk entry looks at some natural wonders of the western United States, including the Grand Canyon and the Devil's Tower. The last stop on the tour, an "unnatural wonder," is the Mount Rushmore National Memorial, where sculptor Gutzon Borgl...

This Traveltalk short visits Rocky Mountain National Park and a nearby dude ranch in Colorado....

Film portrays the expedition of the British explorer David Livingstone to Africa to discover the source of the Nile, his disappearance, and the expedition to find him led by Stanley....

This Traveltalk series short visits the State of Virginia. In 1947, agriculture was the mainstay of the economy. Tobacco, molasses from cane and peanuts were the agricultural mainstays. The State capitol, Richmond, can boast the oldest legislature in...

This Traveltalk series short visits Australia....

This Traveltalk series short focuses first on the architectural styles found in Arizona, then switches to the natural wonders in the state....

This Traveltalk series short showcases the natural wonders in one of the USA's most famous national parks. Waterfalls, grizzly bears, and the Old Faithful geyser are featured....

This Traveltalk series short takes the viewer to Quebec, the city that was called the "New France"....

This short travelogue, touring Arizona's deserts, was shot in VistaVision....

Ireland was still reliant on agriculture when this Traveltalk visit was made in the early 1930s. After looking at the farmers in the countryside and the cattle market in Galway, we see the sights and hear the sounds of Dublin, the capital city....

A Traveltalk visit to the city of canals....

Fitzpatrick Traveltalks in Japan....

We begin at the train station near Montana's Glacier National Park, where Blackfeet Indians meet the arriving tourists. Glacier Park, an off-screen narrator tells us, has the remnants of 60 glaciers, from three ice ages. We visit the lodge, built in ...

This Traveltalk series short visits the rural agricultural areas of Hungary....

This Traveltalk series short visits an array of locations associated with England's heritage. Included are Runnymede, Windsor, Ascot, Lincoln, Wells, Salisbury, Glastonbury, and the ancient Stonehenge site....

This short travelogue, visiting Norway, was shot in VistaVision....

This Traveltalk series short looks over the South American Andes mountains, and the South American west coast, also Rio de Janeiro....

A visit to the structures built by the ancient Mayans at Chichén Itzá, on the Yucatán Peninsula....

A tour of the arid, inhospitable region of the southern California desert known as Death Valley, originally named because of the many travelers in the 1840s who died of thirst, starvation and/or exposure trying to cross it....