James A. FitzPatrick and his TravelTalks gang arrive in Sydney, Australia. War has not arrived for the Australians. Sydney looks more like a vacation spot as a provincial capital. The skyline is missing the Sydney Opera House. The population is a million and a quarter. The song is old fashion and the politician is a round potato. The animals are interesting but they don't have to hang the platypus upside down. That's low level animal abuse. It's a functional time capsule without that much interest.
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200 Miles Of Shoreline
boblipton27 February 2021
James A. Fitzpatrick sends the Technicolor cameras to Sidney, with Hone Glendinning to decide where to point them. There's a lovely early moving shot of the harbor, while Fitzpatrick exclaims over its great length of the bay and its unspoiled vistas.
It certainly looks pleasant back in the day, with no sign or probably thought of the now iconic opera house. After a look at girls in swimming suits, it's off to the city, with Fitzpatrick blathering his usual assortment of almanac facts and odd animals.
It looks like this was a fine-looking short once upon a time, but given the abrupt transitions in colors and fuzziness, it looks like the 16mm prints this was taken from did not age well.
It certainly looks pleasant back in the day, with no sign or probably thought of the now iconic opera house. After a look at girls in swimming suits, it's off to the city, with Fitzpatrick blathering his usual assortment of almanac facts and odd animals.
It looks like this was a fine-looking short once upon a time, but given the abrupt transitions in colors and fuzziness, it looks like the 16mm prints this was taken from did not age well.
The narrator of this travel short implies that if your wife . . .
tadpole-596-9182565 March 2021
Warning: Spoilers
. . . took after the platypus, she would lay an egg and wait until it hatched before investing in all the technology (such as pumps for time-shifting, special "discrete" maternal dispenser garments designed to thwart nosy Parker.s and nozzle piercings reversal surgery) required nowadays the instant a little critter breaches his or her head. SYDNEY: PRIDE OF AUSTRALIA thus raises the intriguing question: what would one do with Junior's shell? Have it bronzed? Press a few fragments in the Baby Book? Or feed it to your cat.
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