James A. Fitzpatrick send the Technicolor cameras winging to Amsterdam, to take pictures under cinematographer Keith Covey. The portrait of the city on view is pretty standard for the long-running series of travelogues, offering the sort of subjects that a tourist might wish to see, now that the ravages of the Second World War were being cleared away.
Fitzpatrick's narration had calmed down a lot over the years. If his Highlights of History lecture and 30-second lecture on Rembrandt is neither deep nor novel, at least he didn't obviously write it with an open thesaurus before him. Neither does he shout as if his audience is deaf.
The standard-looking images looked a bit off when I looked at this short subject on TCM this morning, with the colors looking unnatural and slightly blotchy.
Fitzpatrick's narration had calmed down a lot over the years. If his Highlights of History lecture and 30-second lecture on Rembrandt is neither deep nor novel, at least he didn't obviously write it with an open thesaurus before him. Neither does he shout as if his audience is deaf.
The standard-looking images looked a bit off when I looked at this short subject on TCM this morning, with the colors looking unnatural and slightly blotchy.