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TravelTalks visits the city of Delhi in India. I have to assume that this is the last days before the war. For that, this is an interesting artifact. James A. FitzPatrick does blabber on about Muslim and Hindu. It's always a bit awkward to have his voice talking about some cultural sensitivity. His phrasings are almost insulting. This is more interesting as a people watching exercise. The city hasn't changed that much over the years. Quite frankly, the street life hasn't changed that much either although I do notice a paucity of women in public in those few street scenes. I don't think I've ever seen an ivory screen especially one made over twenty years. It's awesome and awful at the same time. Next, this goes to some horsey action and other animals. Again, the animals in the streets are nothing new, but I can't object to him pointing it out for his American audience. It would have been very exotic for them.

James Fitzpatrick sends the Technicolor cameras to Old Delhi under the supervision of Hone Glendinning, ad spends his monologue talking about the pictures on the screen, which is a relief and a change of pace. We also get a sequence about the capital at New Delhi, with lots of chitchat and music about the viceroy.

We get the usual shots of decaying architecture at a distance, and a lot of pictures of carved ivory, back in the day when that was an acceptable thing.

Some of the colors have faded on the copy of this travelogue that plays on Turner Classic Movies. Browns seem to have invaded the blue sky.