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Mildly Interesting Travelogue
The Indian-detour (1926)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
This 16-minute travelogue certainly isn't the most entertaining of its kind but there are enough interesting scenes to make it worth sitting through once. The Santa Fe Railroad and Harvey Company made this in order to promote their three days trips to New Mexico where people were promised all sorts of things including seeing the "vanishing" Americans, of course referring to Indians. There are quite a few scenes here of the Indians as well as other locations near and around Albuquerque. Overall this thing was mildly interesting for the scenic stuff but outside of this the short was pretty boring. There's certainly no style on display as we just get a bunch of images thrown together and I think the cinematography is also quite forgettable as several interesting objects simply aren't filmed all that well. Those making their way through the Treasures Vol. 5 collection will want to check it out but I'd say others won't make it all the way through.
** 1/2 (out of 4)
This 16-minute travelogue certainly isn't the most entertaining of its kind but there are enough interesting scenes to make it worth sitting through once. The Santa Fe Railroad and Harvey Company made this in order to promote their three days trips to New Mexico where people were promised all sorts of things including seeing the "vanishing" Americans, of course referring to Indians. There are quite a few scenes here of the Indians as well as other locations near and around Albuquerque. Overall this thing was mildly interesting for the scenic stuff but outside of this the short was pretty boring. There's certainly no style on display as we just get a bunch of images thrown together and I think the cinematography is also quite forgettable as several interesting objects simply aren't filmed all that well. Those making their way through the Treasures Vol. 5 collection will want to check it out but I'd say others won't make it all the way through.
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- Michael_Elliott
- Jan 2, 2013
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- Runtime16 minutes
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- 1.37 : 1
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