• 1959
  • 30m
John Gunther's High Road

Summary John Gunther, who had traveled to many areas of the world, hosted this program that showed two filmed trips to exotic locations. The first film had been shot explicitly for this show; the second film had been made by some other group or person. View more details

  • 1959
  • 30m

John Gunther's High Road

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : John Gunther Armand Charlet Bernard Burnet Georges Lépineux

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Genres : Adventure Documentary

Release date : Sep 6, 1959

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Production companies : Blue J Productions

Summary John Gunther, who had traveled to many areas of the world, hosted this program that showed two filmed trips to exotic locations. The first film had been shot explicitly for this show; the second film had been made by some other group or person. View more details

Details

Genres : Adventure Documentary

Release date : Sep 6, 1959

Countries of origin : United States

Language : English

Production companies : Blue J Productions

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John Gunther's High Road (1959) John Gunther's High Road (1959)

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 06, 1959
Song of the Congo
This first documentary concentrates on the native dancing of an African ballet company in Congo.
Episode 2 • Sep 13, 1959
Russia's Next Rulers
This documentary shows Moscow University, its students. teachers and facilities - including classrooms with a calculator on every desk.
Episode 3 • Sep 20, 1959
Togoland
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.
Episode 4 • Sep 25, 1959
Cuba
Actor Cesar Romero, a descendant of Jose Marti, the national hero of Cuba, joins John Gunther in narrating a pictorial tour of the island republic.
Episode 5 • Oct 02, 1959
Benny Goodman in Holland
Benny Goodman and his band perform in a vegetable warehouse in a small farming community of Blockker, Holland.
Episode 6 • Oct 09, 1959
Taming a Mighty River
John Gunther traces the history of the Mississippi River and the problems encountered in controlling it.
Episode 7 • Oct 16, 1959
Inside Space
The complicated and daring task of sending a man into outer space is detailed here.
Episode 8 • Oct 23, 1959
The Lost Civilization
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.
Episode 9 • Oct 30, 1959
Wild Elephant Roundup
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.
Episode 10 • Nov 06, 1959
Survival
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.
Episode 11 • Nov 13, 1959
DEW Line
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.
Episode 12 • Nov 20, 1959
Men Will Find a Way
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.
Episode 13 • Nov 27, 1959
New York City: the Day People, the Night People
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.
Episode 14 • Dec 04, 1959
Caves and Mountains
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
Episode 15 • Dec 11, 1959
New Guinea Patrol
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.
Episode 16 • Dec 18, 1959
Christmas All Over the World
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.
Episode 17 • Dec 25, 1959
Biography of a Diamond
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.
Episode 18 • Jan 08, 1960
Eskimo Boy
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.
Episode 19 • Jan 15, 1960
Siberia
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.
Episode 20 • Jan 22, 1960
Greece
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.
Episode 21 • Jan 29, 1960
Resurgent Japan
A view of the new, modern Japan in colorful scenes, including some of Tokyo's TV tower. Sessue Hayakawa will be the guide.
Episode 22 • Feb 05, 1960
Japan: The People
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.
Episode 23 • Feb 12, 1960
Pakistan
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.
Episode 24 • Feb 19, 1960
The Great Barrier Reef
John Gunther narrates films of the long chain of small islands and sand bars which extend along the East Coast of Australia.
Episode 25 • Feb 26, 1960
Canadian Profile
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.
Episode 26 • Mar 04, 1960
Two Merchants of Guatemala
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.
Episode 27 • Mar 11, 1960
Tanganyika
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.
Episode 28 • Mar 18, 1960
Men of the Sea: The Naked Sea
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.
Episode 29 • Mar 25, 1960
Harvest of the Sea
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.
Episode 30 • Apr 01, 1960
Headhunters of Borneo
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.
Episode 31 • Apr 08, 1960
The Forgotten Land
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.
Episode 32 • Apr 15, 1960
Two Faces of Thailand
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
Episode 33 • Apr 22, 1960
Ten Times Ten Equals One
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.
Episode 34 • Apr 29, 1960
Land Under the Sea
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.
Episode 35 • May 06, 1960
Invisible Wall
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.
Episode 36 • May 13, 1960
Blue Ice
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.
Episode 37 • May 20, 1960
Wild Harvest
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.
Episode 38 • May 27, 1960
Jamaica
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.
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