A Day on Treasure Island
A Day on Treasure Island
| 02 September 1939 (USA)
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This Traveltalks entry visits the Golden Gate International Exposition. Sponsored by 11 western states of the United States and 28 foreign countries, this "world's Fair of the West" was built on Treasure Island, a man-made island in San Francisco Bay. Viewers see the exteriors of many exhibition halls and the pavilions of foreign nations. The art, sculpture, and flowers on display are also featured.

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Orla Zuniga

It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review

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Janae Milner

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

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Zlatica

One of the worst ways to make a cult movie is to set out to make a cult movie.

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Gary

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

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Michael_Elliott

Day on Treasure Island, A (1939) *** (out of 4) Nice entry in MGM's TravelTalks series takes us to San Francisco where we learn the history of Treasure Island. We start off learning that originally you could only see the sand on low-tide but $50 million dollars was spent to build it up into an island, which today holds all sorts of arts and crafts. We're shown the garden of the island, which wraps all around the place and we also get to see other special places including the Tower of the Sun and the Court of the Seven Seas. We're also shown a section where people can view the houses and architecture from other places including Japan and New Zealand. In the background there's a shop called "Daydreams" that promises a "girl show" but we don't get to go in there, which is a shame. As usual, the Technicolor is certainly a major plus but James A. Fitzpatrick's narration is also spot-on. This here is certainly one of the better episodes as we're given a pretty good history of the island and get to see just about everything you'd want to. I will admit that I would have been more interested in how they actually made the island but I'm sure there are plenty of documentaries out there on this.

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