I don't know if this is directly relevant, but you might want to check out
Burton Holmes -- one of the great travel-lecturers at the beginning of the
last century who first illustrated his talks with slide shows and then
turned to filmmaking, forming his own film company in Chicago and then LA.
        Also: "The Roots of Travel Cinema" by Theodore Barber in _Film
History_ volume 5, number 1 (March 1993).

Gene Walz
U of Manitoba
Winnipeg

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