. . . "Voice of the Globe" as he gleefully narrates the slaying of an old-growth Monarch of the Forest being slaughtered to make unsightly "telephone poles." Few entries in this lamentable series better exemplify it dunderheaded insistence upon being on the Wrong Side of History than SEATTLE: GATEWAY TO THE NORTHWEST. The bloviating bozo prattling voiceovers never seems to be able to see a forest for anything else than telephone poles. As a major mouthpiece for the House of the Groaning Fat Cat Corrupt One Per Centers, this bloated buffoon invariably toes the C of C party line. Railroading Spotted Owls down the Path to Extinction, Leo's Liar also claims that Seattle is the newest World Metropolis for its population size. The only problem with that assertion for "Mr. Globetrotter" is that in his near-sighted tunnel vision, he is overlooking at least 57 burgeoning burgs in China, India and other Asian Nations. Mendacity always has been the hallmark of the official Pachyderm Party Propaganda Programmer, and viewers can turn to SEATTLE: GATEWAY TO THE NORTHWEST for an especially heavy dose of nincompoop nonsense!
5 Reviews
"How the Mighty have Fallen!" chortles the self-styled . . .
oscaralbert15 December 2019
Warning: Spoilers
Traveltalks
SnoopyStyle19 June 2021
Traveltalks goes to the state of Washington. After some wilderness and Mount Rainier, the show quickly arrives in Seattle. It's the quiet of a pre-war America. They go to a lumber camp where a tree is taken down by a giant chainsaw. The massive lumber port is impressive from the air. We visit Washington State and their university rowing team. I definitely like the lumber camp the most. It would have been great to see more of the men working. This is a fine slice of time.
As 2021 is an Olympic year (the first time this honor has been . . .
tadpole-596-91825628 June 2021
Warning: Spoilers
. . . bestowed upon an "odd year" in several millennium, if I'm not mistaken), everyone seems to be dusting off ANY bit of film having even the slightest connection to what seems to be looming as an annual event. SEATTLE also was released during an Olympic year, which was nullified by the previous host country's gauche Blitzkrieg attack upon all of its primary athletic rivals. That's why it's pretty hard to appreciate the Olympic Rowing gold-medal-winning "Washington Stroke" while wondering whether the widespread screening of such an ill omen portends the breakout of World War Three before the end of 2021.
Seattle? I Think I've Heard Of That
boblipton21 July 2019
James A. Fitzpatrick sends the Technicolor cameras under Bob Carney to take pictures of what he calls "One of the world's wonder cities," given that it was a trading post before the Yukon and Klondike gold finds.
Well, maybe. Certainly in the eighty years since this was released to theaters, the city has grown, thanks to a couple of companies called Boeing and Microsoft. However, there isn't much discussion of urban Seattle in this one. More time is spent showing the flower-edged roads, and the logging industry -- with a kind word for the companies that plant new trees as fast as they cut down old ones.
There's a shimmering quality to the colors here that reminds me of British Technicolor. In England, that's attributed to the high humidity. Could be the same cause here.
Well, maybe. Certainly in the eighty years since this was released to theaters, the city has grown, thanks to a couple of companies called Boeing and Microsoft. However, there isn't much discussion of urban Seattle in this one. More time is spent showing the flower-edged roads, and the logging industry -- with a kind word for the companies that plant new trees as fast as they cut down old ones.
There's a shimmering quality to the colors here that reminds me of British Technicolor. In England, that's attributed to the high humidity. Could be the same cause here.
TravelTalks
Michael_Elliott6 May 2012
Seattle: Gateway to the North (1940)
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Nice entry in MGM's TravelTalks series has James A. FitzPatrick traveling to Washington where he talks about its growing city Seattle. We start off by taking a look at Mount Rainier and then we learn a bit of history about how Seattle was just a small village with a thousand people or so living there until the 1897 Gold Rush had people storming the city since it was the closest port to Alaska. We also hear about the giant building boom after WWI, which helped the city grow. The other thing we look at are the beautiful trees in the state and we learn about how the logging industry works. Overall this is another good episode in the series as we get to hear some pretty good information about the city and of course there's the Technicolor that brings the images to life. The shots of the logging was certainly a highlight as were the scenes showing the incredibly blue waters.
** 1/2 (out of 4)
Nice entry in MGM's TravelTalks series has James A. FitzPatrick traveling to Washington where he talks about its growing city Seattle. We start off by taking a look at Mount Rainier and then we learn a bit of history about how Seattle was just a small village with a thousand people or so living there until the 1897 Gold Rush had people storming the city since it was the closest port to Alaska. We also hear about the giant building boom after WWI, which helped the city grow. The other thing we look at are the beautiful trees in the state and we learn about how the logging industry works. Overall this is another good episode in the series as we get to hear some pretty good information about the city and of course there's the Technicolor that brings the images to life. The shots of the logging was certainly a highlight as were the scenes showing the incredibly blue waters.
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