Here's a travelogue about Ecuador. As is usual with them, there's a little history, a little about how modern it is, a little bit about local specialties, and a little bit about its charming peculiarities.
But was it so common? RKO vied with Columbia to be the last of the majors to continue to offer new short subjects for a complete movie program; Warners gave up the ghost the year this came out. The market for short subjects was growing very thin, so economy measures were in order. That's why this is a black-and-white short: nothing to compare to the Technicolor extravaganzas that MGM had offered for twenty years, or the widescreen Vistavision travelogues Paramount had turned out only a year before.
Still, for what it is, giving movie audiences a glimpse of a foreign land, it's pretty good.
But was it so common? RKO vied with Columbia to be the last of the majors to continue to offer new short subjects for a complete movie program; Warners gave up the ghost the year this came out. The market for short subjects was growing very thin, so economy measures were in order. That's why this is a black-and-white short: nothing to compare to the Technicolor extravaganzas that MGM had offered for twenty years, or the widescreen Vistavision travelogues Paramount had turned out only a year before.
Still, for what it is, giving movie audiences a glimpse of a foreign land, it's pretty good.