High Road takes off to a garden spot we've all been saving up to see - Togoland. The film footage was borrowed from the UN and covers the plebiscite held in the UN trust territory.
The discovery of important Mayan ruins and the key to the culture of these people through a study of the last of their descendants, the Lacandon Indians.
John Gunther narrates a documentary history of the elephant as pet, work animal and curiosity in zoos and circuses. He also shows films of what may be the last of the great wild elephant roundups.
Beauty, brutality and tenderness in the struggle for existence among animals and birds in this story filmed in Swedish forests and on the cliffs of the Baltic Sea coast.
John Gunther narrates a study of the construction and operation of the Distant Early Warning radar-defense line which stretches across Northern Canada and Alaska.
John Gunther narrates films showing the struggle of two villages, one in Chile and one in Greece, to break the traditions of centuries and improve their communications with the outside world.
Walter Winchell narrates a tour of New York City. He visits the business sections of the city during the day. At night he covers the centers of the city's nighttime activity, including Times Square.
John Gunther narrates films of the only successful climb of the Devil's Needles, five Alpine peaks near Mont Blanc, and of explorations of the caves of Pierre St. Martin in the Pyrenees
John Gunther narrates films of an Australian government expedition into the New Guinea jungle to make contact with the tribes there. The expedition contacted natives who had never before seen a white man.
Mr. Gunther narrates a filmed view of Christmas throughout the world. Scenes are shown of Bethlehem and Jerusalem in the Holy Land, where the churches of the various Christian sects hold religious services.
John Gunther narrates the history of man's use of diamonds from ancient Persia to the present. We see the large diamond centers of New York City, Amsterdam, Holland, and Natania, Israel.
Mr. Gunther narrates the filmed story of the life of an Eskimo family who set up housekeeping in the Arctic wilderness, away from any other settlement. The family is seen constructing its igloo, trapping foxes and hunting seals.
Host John Gunther clears up some of the common misconceptions of U.S. citizens that Siberia is nothing but a land of penal colonies. Siberian technicians and scientists are building a whole new country in this cold wilderness.
John Gunther narrates films of modern Greece and the ruins of ancient Greece. Seen are the large cities of Athens and Salonica; the Royal Palace in Athens; the ruins of the Acropolis, the Parthenon, the Temple of Zeus and the Erechtheum.
Japanese film star Shirley Yamaguchi narrates a filmed documentary about the Japanese people at home, at work, at school and at play. Starting with a visit to the home of a typical workingman's family.
John Gunther narrates films of a teen-age boy's voyage from the Khyber Pass in the foothills of the Himalayas, to the heart of his country, Pakistan. The boy visits the trade center of Peshawar, the fertile Indus Valley.
John Gunther narrates the filmed story of how the young people of Canada are participating in the rapid economic expansion of their huge, underpopulated country.
Two merchants of Guatemala travel through their country to buy cloth. They see Christian and pagan religious festivals, visit a suspicious and arrogant mountain tribe and, in colorful villages on the shores of Lake Atitlan.
Mr. Gunther narrates films about the transition of this East African British protectorate from savagery to self-determination. The coffee-growing Wachagga tribe is contrasted with the nomadic Massi, a warrior tribe.
A four-month hunt for tuna in the Pacific Ocean. In this first of two parts, the commercial fishing ship is prepared for the trip in California, and heads toward Panama, the Galapagos Islands and Peru.
Second half of the story of a commercial tuna clipper. The ship encounters a school of tuna off Panama, loses it in a storm and goes on to the Galapagos Islands.
Headhunters of Borneo are the Dyaks, a savage tribe deep in the Island's interior. French anthropologist Pierre Ivanoff leads an expedition to their camp, passing Macassar on the Isle of Celebes and 16-oar fishing junks in the Java Sea.
John Gunther narrates films of a joint Bolivian-United Nations project which transplanted primitive Andean Indians from their mountain homes to the country's fertile valleys.
John Gunther shows the two faces of Thailand, the primitive, opium-growing hinterland and the bustling, prosperous metropolis of Bangkok. Sights include a celebration of the birth of the Buddha, and views of the Meo tribe
John Gunther narrates films of the West Indies Federation, a new member of the British Commonwealth. Viewers see the people, industries and tropical scenery of the islands and get a picture of some of their problems.
Holland, where at least half the people live on land below sea level. John Gunther narrates the story of some of the country's customs, it's elaborate dike and canal system and the 1953 disaster, when the sea broke through the dikes.
Invisible Wall refers to the dividing line between Communists (North) and Nationalists (South) in Vietnam, Gunther discusses life in Vietnam during the hundred years when it was the French colony of Indochina.
John Gunther narrates films of the voyage of the Kista Dan, an Antarctic exploration ship. It sails from Melbourne, Australia to Heard Island, where final preparations are made to establish a scientific outpost on the Antarctic ice.
John Gunther goes to Kenya to visit Carl Hartly, who specializes in capturing wild beasts for zoos, museums and circuses. Gunther also visits a nomadic tribesman who keeps herds of domesticated animals deep in the jungle.
Comedian Herb Shriner, with his wife and daughter, takes viewers on a tour of the Caribbean Island of Jamaica. They tour the city of Kingston, watch some native dancers, visit a plantation.
