The camera takes the audience to The Rainbow Forest, better known as the Petrified Forest, in Arizona; into the workings of a glass-blowing plant and finally through the gorges of the Yangtze river in China..
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If you have any patience for old travelogues that feel like they were stitched together by a madman, this is fine. It's not really a "movie" in the way we talk about Captain Blood, where you actually have characters or a point. If you want a narrative, you will hate this. If you just want to see what 1930s cameras thou...
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"If you have any patience for old travelogues that feel like they were stitched together by a madman, this is fine. It's not really a "movie" in the way we talk about Captain Blood, where you actually have characters or a point. If you want a narrative, you will hate this. If you just want to see what 1930s cameras thought the Yangtze river looked like, then maybe stay for a bit. The whole thing starts in Arizona at the Petrified Forest. It’s very quiet. You get these long, lingering shots of ro..."
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