. . . from the distaff shower room scene during the original version of CARRIE, this "Travel Talk"--MONUMENTAL UTAH--evokes a resounding echo of "Plug her up! Plug her UP!! Plug HER UP!!!" At 5:50 of this brief short, the clueless narrator enters the second of three "national parks" shown here: Powell Canyon. Everything that this tree-hugger dude rhapsodizes over here is now UNDER hundreds of feet of water, thanks to the energy (that is, money)-producing Glen Canyon Dam. Leader Trump already has halved the size of several Utah national park units during his first term. Now that he has nothing to lose in his second stint as ranger-in-chief, he can make the USA even greater and more energy independent by damming up the OTHER two canyons shown within MONUMENTAL UTAH--Zion and Bryce. As he does this, he should go after the Big Enchilada of hydroelectrical power in America, and plug up the Grand Canyon just south of Utah with a giant concrete wall even more beautiful and extensive than the one gracing the U.S. Southern Border.
4 Reviews
drive in the country
SnoopyStyle7 November 2020
TravelTalks goes to Zion National Park and then Bryce Canyon National Park in Utah. It's nature. There are no people except a car drives by. Quite frankly, I don't think TravelTalks is at its best doing just a drive in the country. The vistas are amazing but they would still be the same today. It's worth something back then but it's not as important now.
TravelTalks
Michael_Elliott19 June 2009
Monumental Utah (1944)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
The title alone should tell you that we've got another entry in MGM's TravelTalks series with James A. FitzPatrick. This time we visit Utah where we get to visit various sites including Mormon Tabernacle Choir as well as some mountains, which Indians once believed held demons. FitzPatrick said that up until recent years no one was able to reach this site other than Indians and early settlers. As a whole this is another decent episode but I was somewhat shocked to see that there really wasn't too many places visited. The narration is also cut back and instead we just get long tracking shots of the locations that we're looking at, which actually wasn't a bad thing. The mountain range we visit is pretty much a couple minute drive down the road with the film just letting our eyes see everything there is.
** 1/2 (out of 4)
The title alone should tell you that we've got another entry in MGM's TravelTalks series with James A. FitzPatrick. This time we visit Utah where we get to visit various sites including Mormon Tabernacle Choir as well as some mountains, which Indians once believed held demons. FitzPatrick said that up until recent years no one was able to reach this site other than Indians and early settlers. As a whole this is another decent episode but I was somewhat shocked to see that there really wasn't too many places visited. The narration is also cut back and instead we just get long tracking shots of the locations that we're looking at, which actually wasn't a bad thing. The mountain range we visit is pretty much a couple minute drive down the road with the film just letting our eyes see everything there is.
Monument Valley
boblipton25 April 2020
James A. Fitzpatrick sends the Technicolor cameras to exotic Utah under the supervision of cinematographer Charles Boyle. There, they are used to capture images of Monument Valley, well before John Ford could get there for his own cowboy movies.
Something about the Second World War seems to have calmed down Fitzpatrick. True, he spouts sesquipedalian blather, and random facts as freely as he ever did, but now he merely speaks loudly, and rather jovially, rather than shouting. Perhaps earlier he had been worrying about all that expensive equipment being shipped around the globe.; however would he pay for the loss should it be sunk at sea or stolen by sacred monkeys in Katmandu. Or perhaps the new ear trumpet meant he could hear other people and didn't feel a need to be so loud himself.
Even today, the pictures in this short are startling in their beauty. The copy I looked at this morning on TCM was one of the well-preserved ones.
Something about the Second World War seems to have calmed down Fitzpatrick. True, he spouts sesquipedalian blather, and random facts as freely as he ever did, but now he merely speaks loudly, and rather jovially, rather than shouting. Perhaps earlier he had been worrying about all that expensive equipment being shipped around the globe.; however would he pay for the loss should it be sunk at sea or stolen by sacred monkeys in Katmandu. Or perhaps the new ear trumpet meant he could hear other people and didn't feel a need to be so loud himself.
Even today, the pictures in this short are startling in their beauty. The copy I looked at this morning on TCM was one of the well-preserved ones.
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