Will our Travel Adventure Films become passé a decade or so from now?
The question is raised because of vanishing venues, long- gone patrons, or stay-at-homers watching Anthony Bourdain’s No Reservations on the Travel Channel.
Posts Tagged ‘Burton Holmes’
March 2nd, 2010
‘Sexless Sunsets’ Going to Black?
February 22nd, 2009
Tombstone Editor Also Traveling AV Artist
Everyone knows about the Wild West town of Tombstone, Arizona, and perhaps even the town newspaper, the Tombstone Epitaph. But film artists and presenters might be surprised to learn that its founder and editor later went on the road with his own platform audio-visual show.
Posted in Features 
Tags: 3-D stereo, Alaska, Apaches, Arizona, Arizona Territory, Audie Murphy, Burton Holmes, Chicago, Chilkoote, Chiricahua Apaches, Chris Borden, Clanton Gang, Dragoon Mountains Reservation, Geronimo, Gunfight at the OK Corral, John Philip Clum, Keystone View Co., Klondike, New Mexico, New Mexico Territory, Princeton, Road to a Thousand Wonders, Rutgers, San Carlos, San Francisco Panama-Pacific-International Exposition, Santa Fe, Signal Corps, Southern California, Southern Pacific, Tombstone, Tombstone Epitaph, Tucson Citizen, U.S. Postal Service, Walk the Proud Land, War department, Washington, World War I, Wyatt Earp 
Comments OffJanuary 24th, 2009
It’s Chicago For Travel Film Adventurers
Adventuring filmmakers, bookers and agents will gather in the place Carl Sandburg called the City of the Big Shoulders and where Burton Holmes once called home.
Posted in Features Tags: Bloomingdales, Burton Holmes, Carl Sandburg, Chestnut Street Cafe, Chicago, Meiman-Marcus, Museum of Contemporary Art, Saloon Steakhouse, Seneca Hotel, Stan Walsh, travel adventure cinema society, Water Tower Place Comments OffSeptember 1st, 2008
30 Years On the Road …And 30 More?
In 1978, an estimated 1,000 or more travel film venues were spread across the United States and Canada. They flourished in theaters, performing arts centers, schools, geographic societies, universities, colleges, service and women’s clubs.
Posted in Departments Tags: 16mm, Burton Holmes, film archives, slides, travel adventure cinema industry history, travelogues Comments Off
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