Name: Colorful North Carolina
Genre: Documentary, Short
Released: 1942-02-21
Duration: 9 min
Rating: 6.3
Cast: James A. FitzPatrick

James A. Fitzpatrick sends the Technicolor cameras under cinematographer William O. Steiner to North Carolina, to talk mostly about the beautiful scenery in the mountains -- well, we call them mountain on the East Coast, but they probably wouldn't even count as foothills out west.

It's beautiful scenery indeed, and typical of the wartime Traveltalks, when almost all of them were shot in the US, with the occasional one set in Mexico, or when one slipped across the border into Canada. There's lots in the Lower 48, as we call them now, to command our attention, like the 3,300 Cherokee Indians, descendants of the folks who eluded Winfield Scott. A lot fo the others died on the 'Trail of Tears.'

Other than those, most of whom are not full-blooded Cherokee, there appears to be not one person in North Carolina who isn't White. That fact astonished me, but after looking at this travelogue, I am forced to that conclusion. Seeing is, after mall, believing.

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A visit to the Cataloochee Ranch, near Waynesville in North Carolina, and the annual Rhododendron Pageant at the Biltmore Estate.

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