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- A girl who is loved by a young peasant is courted in song, as is her friend the widow. At the widow's house gather the girl and the boy and the widow and her suitor, and a double betrothal is settled.
- In Scotland, an exiled girl saves the king from outlaws.
- This Traveltalk entry first visits Bangkok, the capital of Thailand, when the country's name was still Siam. Then it's off to Seoul, South Korea. When the visit was made in the early 1930s, Korea was not yet divided and was a province administered by Japan. The film emphasized the deep influence of Buddhism on the daily life of the peoples in both countries.
- A series of twelve short films based on the twelve signs of the Zodiac, one for each month, titled chronologically from "People Born in January" to "People Born in December." 2-strip Technicolor sequences show the flowers and birthstones of each month.
- A springtime Traveltalk visit to Japan.
- A romanticised look at Irish culture. It's a short and there isn't much real analysis. The filming is silent with an American voice over.
- This Traveltalk visit to China starts in Beijing, which at the time was officially called Peiping. Called the Imperial City, it consists of four separate districts. One of these is the famous Forbidden City, domicile of the Emperor. Later we take a train trip to see a portion the Great Wall.
- Land of the Maharajas: Sadhus and many camels Brings you to the famous white city of Udaipur with its magnificent palaces and gardens situated on islands in many lakes that gave it the name of "Venice of the East". From there we immerse in legends of chivalry and valor at the citadel city of Chittorgarh, three times the stage jaguars against the Moguls invaders. We ended the tour in an absolutely magnificent place, the holy city of Pushkar, an amalgam of holy and unholy people, right during its most important event of the year, its famous camel fair. Land of the Maharajas: Sadhus and Many Camels (49 minutes) covers Udaipur, Chittorgarh and Pushkar.
- An innkeeper's daughter loves a shepherd boy and will not listen to her father's plea that she marry a rich young Londoner. The Londoner pleads with the girl, but she will not hear him. He goes back to London and the girl is happy with her shepherd.
- In summer 2006; the incomparable Martha Argerich presented an all Schumann programme in honour of the great romantic composer's anniversary year.
- A Traveltalk visit to the island nation when it was still a British crown colony and the name Sri Lanka was 40 years in the future.
- A Traveltalk visit to Portugal's autonomous island group in the Atlantic Ocean. We learn that many of the things associated with the islands were actually instituted by British explorers who visited the island several hundred years before the Portuguese. This includes embroidered fabrics, wicker chairs, and the islands' world famous wine.
- An elderly Franz Liszt (1811-1886), living in a monastery, recalls his lost, unrequited love on his birthday.
- One of the "Famous Melody Series," with sound-on-disc, produced by James A. Fitzpatrick and distributed by Pathe Film Exchanges Inc. This one finds the usual star, Peggy Shaw, as the dancing-partner wife of an Apache dancer in an underworld dive in Paris. She is loved by a crippled violin player, whose death is caused by her husband who has thrown him down in a sub-cellar. Shaw is at his side when he dies, while her husband dances with another partner on the floor above them. Running through the films is a song played by the violinist.
- A Scots lass parts regretfully from her lad as he goes to make his mark in the world. The lad meets an old man who warns him against leaving his beloved. He returns to her and they are married. Then the old man, who loves the girl's mother, asks that she be his wife. Thereafter another marriage is arranged.
- A look into the final years of Frederick Chopin, when he was having an affair with Madame Georges Sand.