25 November 1930 Factual 8 mins
This Traveltalk series short takes the viewer to the island nation when it was still a British crown colony and the name Sri Lanka was 40 years in the future.
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James A. FitzPatrick as Narrator (voice)
James A. FitzPatrick Director
United States 25 November 1930
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01 August 1930
Con artists try to trick an old man out of his life savings.
15 October 1930
Returning from the war, Buck finds his younger brother in trouble.
20 March 1930
Lieut. Robert Banks, an American aviator on leave in Paris, meets Mary Gordon, a young American who lives abroad, but their romance is cut short by his return to the front.
03 May 1930
An adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham's The Circle. A young woman married into an aristocratic English family finds life with her husband dull and decides to elope with a Canadian.
16 November 1930
Various anthropomorphic animals flock to the stadium to watch a horse race. Released November 16, 190
08 May 1930
Johann Strauss returns to Austria in 1848 after a visit to Russia.
05 September 1930
Charles, Joseph and Sir Benjamin are in love with Maria and Lady Sneerwell is in love with Charles.
22 May 1930
'A woman reporter is blackmailed for knowledge of freed suspect's involvement in a murder.' (British)
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