Movies: James A. FitzPatrick

This Traveltalk series short discusses how Johannesburg began as a farming community, but with the discovery of gold in the area, the city embraced mining as its primary industry. Native workers came to the area to train to be miners, and even after ...

This Traveltalk series short visits the United States Military Academy at West Point just before America's entry into World War II. It starts with a short history lesson on the area's strategic importance in the Revolutionary War. We then get a look ...

A short about Nathaniel Hawthorne directed by documentary maker James A. FitzPatrick....

Actress Carol Adams retires from the theater when she becomes engaged to businessman Gregory Davis, but is increasingly frustrated by Greg's unwavering devotion to his business. Tired of being ignored, Carol leaves her engagement ring with Greg's sec...

This Traveltalk series entry takes the viewer to a number of locations throughout the state of Florida....

A brief but colorful travelogue of India's biggest cities following the partition of the country in 1947 at the end of the British Raj....

This Traveltalks short showcases the Paris International Exposition of 1937. It features a tour of the pavillions of several nations, as well as the spectacular water and light displays....

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

This FitzPatrick's Traveltalks series short takes the viewer to various sites around California that resemble the geography, architecture, and culture of other places around the globe....

This Traveltalk series short takes a trip on the Rhine river, with stops at Cologne, Bonn, and Koblenz....

This Technicolor short features the songs of the great American popular composer Stephen Collins Foster. Based on Foster's memoirs....

James A. FitzPatrick tour of Egypt in 1934 for his Traveltalks series....

This travel film takes the viewer to the northern part of Rajasthan. After a quick day tour in New Delhi and its surroundings we visit the magnificently painted havelis of Shekhawati, in Jhunjhunu, Mandawa and Fatehpur, an area that used to be one of...

This quick look at Lisbon begins with aerial footage of the port city as the off-screen narrator provides some history of a seafaring, colonizing nation, of destructive earthquakes, and of contemporary construction. Then it's on to famous buildings a...

This Traveltalk series short celebrates San Francisco, past and present....

This Traveltalk series short highlights rural areas of England. We stop at the village of Bradford-on-Avon, with its thatched roofs, also Stoke Poges, the burial place of British poet Thomas Gray....

This James A. FitzPatrick Traveltalks short visits the West German cities of Hamburg, Bremen, Munich, and Heidelberg. Included are scenes of World War II destruction that lingered at the time....

Another entry in MGM's TravelTalks series with James A. FitzPatrick. This time we visit Mexico, which was a popular destination for this series since it traveled there many times. We see the Bandero Monument which was built to highlight Mexico's flag...

A James A. FitzPatrick travelogue of Iceland....

This James A. FitzPatrick's People on Parade series short takes the viewer to Alexandria, Egypt, with emphasis on the modern nature of the city....