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The Mission Trail
This Traveltalk series short follows the route laid out by the famous chain of 21 Spanish missions, begun in 1769 and extending northward for over 500 miles, from San Diego to Sonoma, California. We stop briefly at San Luis Rey and San Juan Capistrano (to watch the swallows) as well as San Juan Bautista and other missions.
| Release : | 1946 |
| Rating : | 6.5 |
| Studio : | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, |
| Crew : | Director, |
| Cast : | James A. FitzPatrick |
| Genre : | Documentary |
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Good concept, poorly executed.
It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
Another entry in the TravelTalks series of travelogues narrated by James A. Fitzpatrick. This one covers Spanish missions built in California. Fitzpatrick discusses the history of the missions. As always with this series of shorts, the footage of these locations is the best part. It's filmed in beautiful technicolor. I enjoy these old travelogues. Today it's very easy to look up pictures, videos, and information on any place in the world. But back then shorts like this were a gateway to another world for many people. It gave them the opportunity to see places they probably would never visit. For us, it gives us not only a glimpse at another place but another time as well. One of my favorite parts of this short wasn't even footage of the lovely church buildings. It was footage of the people, highways, businesses, and automobiles from that era. Time capsule, you know? I love this sort of stuff.
Mission Trail, The (1946) ** 1/2 (out of 4) Another film in the long-running TravelTalk series with James A. FitzPatrick. This time we look at the twenty-one Spanish mission, which begun in 1769 and went from San Diego to Sonoma. In the short we stop by San Juan Bautista, San Juan Capistrano and San Luis Rey. This is a pretty good entry in the series that once again gives us plenty to look at as well as giving us a bit of history on the subject. One of the most interesting stories takes place in San Luis Rey where original villagers were under attack by Indians when they hung out a picture of the Virgin Mary, which made the Indians put down their weapons. The Technicolor really shows off the various locations well.
