{"id":14,"date":"2009-02-05T18:36:33","date_gmt":"2009-02-05T23:36:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.burtonholmesarchive.com\/?page_id=14"},"modified":"2009-02-11T20:31:49","modified_gmt":"2009-02-12T01:31:49","slug":"timeline-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.burtonholmesarchive.com\/?page_id=14","title":{"rendered":"Timeline"},"content":{"rendered":"

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1870, January: <\/span>Burton<\/span> Holmes (BH) born into a wealthy family in <\/span>Chicago<\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n


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1880: Holmes attends John L. Stoddard’s <\/span>Chicago<\/span> lecture on the Oberammergau Passion Play <\/span><\/p>\n


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1883: Holmes buys first camera and gets hooked; installs a darkroom and does all his own work <\/span><\/p>\n


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1886: Holmes first visits <\/span>Europe<\/span>, with his grandmother; sails on the <\/span>Etruria<\/span><\/em>; sits at a corner table at the Caf\u00e9 de la Paix <\/span><\/p>\n


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1890: On second visit to <\/span>Europe<\/span> (again with grandmother) on the <\/span>Umbria<\/span><\/em>, Holmes meets and befriends Stoddard at <\/span>Oberammergau<\/span><\/p>\n


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1890\/1: Holmes shows his pictures from <\/span>Europe<\/span> at the Chicago Camera Club; writes a script and delivers first lecture based on his slides, raising $350 for the club <\/span><\/p>\n


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1891: Holmes fails at selling real estate, then works as clerk in a camera store. During the summer visits <\/span>Mexico<\/span> for a month with Grandmother, on a Grafton Excursions tour. First photographs on Eastman’s new flexible celluloid film. <\/span><\/p>\n


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1892, August: Holmes gets family to send him to <\/span>Japan<\/span> for four months; on the train to <\/span>Vancouver<\/span> meets John L. Stoddard again, also going to <\/span>Japan<\/span>. They spend time together and Stoddard offers BH chance to go with him to <\/span>Korea<\/span>, but BH prefers to stay in <\/span>Japan<\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n


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1893: Panic of 1893 ruins Holmes’ father financially <\/span><\/p>\n


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1893: Holmes decides to show his slides taken in <\/span>Japan<\/span>, hand-colored in <\/span>Yokohama<\/span>, at lecture halls to make money. First lectures: four shows at the Recital Hall of the Chicago Conservatory of Dramatic Art, beginning 15 November. McIntosh Battery and Optical Company rents him stereopticon, and operator: Oscar Depue. Makes $700 over two days. Meets Edmund Locke and hires him as manager (and angel\/investor). Books four nights in <\/span>Milwaukee<\/span> and loses most of the $700 <\/span><\/p>\n


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1893-7: BH Struggles as a travel lecturer <\/span><\/p>\n


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1894, February: sails for <\/span>North Africa<\/span> on a Mediterranean cruise on German liner Fuerst Bismarck<\/em> with friend Nelson Barnes and Barnes’ father’s letter of credit. Goal: take pictures of <\/span>Morocco<\/span>, <\/span>Spain<\/span> for new lectures. This trip is described in the Lectures \/ Travelogues<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n


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1894\/5: Second season, has six lectures he can give; successful at the Recital Hall in <\/span>Chicago<\/span> but gets only meager paying audiences in <\/span>Indianapolis<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n


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1897: Stoddard retires after eighteen years. Holmes rents <\/span>Central<\/span> <\/span>Music Hall<\/span> in <\/span>Chicago<\/span> and successfully carries on where Stoddard had been. Meets Louis Francis Brown who secures him contracts in <\/span>New York City<\/span>, <\/span>Boston<\/span>, <\/span>Philadelphia<\/span>, and <\/span>Brooklyn<\/span>. Brown stays as Manager of the Burton Holmes Lectures until his death in 1925. Success varies, even with commendation from Stoddard that BH can use in his brochures.<\/span><\/p>\n

1897: Oscar Depue buys a 60 mm movie camera from L\u00e9on Gaumont in <\/span>Paris<\/span> and shoots films for Holmes of Venice, <\/span>Milan<\/span>, and <\/span>France<\/span>. <\/span>Holmes first uses moving pictures only as supplement to his lectures. The movie sequences are presented after the show, as novelties not related to the subject matter, but including a police parade in Chicago, the <\/span>Omaha<\/span> fire department on a call, and Neapolitans eating spaghetti. Oscar Depue in charge of this new part of the shows. Film is 60 mm wide, unperforated. <\/span><\/p>\n


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1899-1900: BH begins to integrate his film into the lectures themselves, beginning with footage shot in <\/span>Hawaii<\/span>, the <\/span>Philippines<\/span>, and <\/span>Japan<\/span><\/p>\n


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1900: BH goes to <\/span>Oberammergau<\/span> and films the Passion Play, and to <\/span>Paris<\/span> to photograph the Exposition; both are presented in the 1900-01 season. Struck by a display at the Exposition, he decides to go on the Trans-Siberian Railroad. <\/span><\/p>\n


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1901: BH meets Tolstoy and films him; crosses <\/span>Russia<\/span> and <\/span>China<\/span> on grueling TSRR trip. The 1901 lecture season features, besides <\/span>Russia<\/span>, <\/span>Peking<\/span> and <\/span>China<\/span>, and <\/span>Seoul<\/span> and <\/span>Korea<\/span>. <\/span><\/p>\n


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1902: Lecture season features <\/span>Portugal<\/span>, <\/span>Denmark<\/span>, <\/span>Sweden<\/span>, and <\/span>Norway<\/span>. Manager Louis Francis Brown coins the term “travelogue”<\/span><\/a> for a series of shows in <\/span>London<\/span>. Switches to 35 mm film (still black-and-white, of course) <\/span><\/p>\n


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1903: Lecture season features <\/span>Alaska<\/span> and the <\/span>Klondike<\/span><\/p>\n


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1904, Sept 14: Andre de la Varre Sr born in <\/span>Washington<\/span> <\/span>D.C.<\/span><\/p>\n


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1904: Lecture season features <\/span>London<\/span> and <\/span>Ireland<\/span><\/p>\n


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1905: Lecture season features <\/span>Switzerland<\/span> and the <\/span>Tirol<\/span>, and the 1905 Russo-Japanese War with the siege of <\/span>Port Arthur<\/span><\/p>\n


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1906: Lecture season features an Egyptian journey from <\/span>Cairo<\/span> to the <\/span>Upper Nile<\/span><\/p>\n


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1908: Lecture season features the Olympic Games in <\/span>Athens<\/span>. <\/span>Holmes, at this period in love with <\/span>Japan<\/span> and its people, discusses his 1908 trip there in LADIES’ HOME JOURNAL (Nov. 1908). <\/span><\/p>\n


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1909: Lecture season features “Hawaii Today,” “The Cities of Japan Today,” “The Country of Japan Today,” “Java and <\/span>Ceylon<\/span>,” and “Round About Paris”<\/span><\/p>\n


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1909-10: Lecture seasons feature <\/span>Berlin<\/span>, <\/span>Vienna<\/span>, <\/span>Paris<\/span>, <\/span>London<\/span>; <\/span>Fez<\/span>; <\/span>Hawaii<\/span>, the Philppines, <\/span>Japan<\/span>, Java, and <\/span>Ceylon<\/span>; <\/span>Munich<\/span> and <\/span>Bavaria<\/span>, <\/span>Bohemia<\/span>, and the Czecho-Slovak peoples <\/span><\/p>\n


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1911: Lecture season features <\/span>South America<\/span>\u2014<\/span>Buenos Aires<\/span>, Santiago de Chile, <\/span>Rio de Janeiro<\/span><\/p>\n


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1912: Lecture season features <\/span>West Indies<\/span> and the <\/span>Panama Canal<\/span>; also <\/span>British India<\/span><\/p>\n


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1912\/13: “The <\/span>Panama Canal<\/span>” becomes most popular travelogue ever <\/span><\/p>\n


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1913: Lecture season features <\/span>Philippines<\/span> (second visit)<\/span><\/p>\n


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1914: March 22: BH marries Margaret Oliver in NYC; honeymoons in <\/span>Atlantic City<\/span><\/p>\n


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1914-17: World War I restricts travel, so <\/span>films in the U.S, <\/span>Canada<\/span>, <\/span>Australia<\/span>, <\/span>New Zealand<\/span>, and the <\/span>Pacific<\/span> <\/span>Islands<\/span><\/p>\n


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1915: “Down in <\/span>Dixie<\/span>” travelogue not popular success <\/span><\/p>\n


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1915 \u2014 1921: Signs with <\/span>Paramount<\/span>, makes 52 travel shorts every year. <\/span>Holmes in <\/span>California<\/span>, as part of the Mather Mountain Party<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n


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1914, Oct 25: Robert M. Mallett born<\/span><\/p>\n


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1918: As a war correspondent, BH shoots army scenes on the Western Front <\/span><\/p>\n


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1924: Andre de la Varre Sr. meets BH and begins working as cameraman and assistant for next eleven years<\/span><\/p>\n

1927-28: BH lecture series, “Happy Hawaii,” “Days in <\/span>Paris<\/span>,” “More Days and Some Nights in Paris,” and “The New Austria.”.<\/span><\/p>\n


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1928-29: BH lecture series, “<\/span>Gibraltar<\/span> to the <\/span>Pyrenees<\/span>,” in three parts, and “The Irish Free State.” <\/span><\/p>\n


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1929\/1930: BH signs with <\/span>MGM<\/span> to do talking films.<\/span><\/p>\n


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1932: Andre Sr travels with BH to <\/span>Japan<\/span> and <\/span>Indonesia<\/span><\/p>\n


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1932: BH buys Topside, former home of Francis X. Bushman, in <\/span>Hollywood<\/span>. Leases it out to Francis Hollander<\/span><\/p>\n


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1932, April 5: Program: Rotary Club of <\/span>Chicago<\/span> Luncheon Progam. Andre LaVarre, chief cameraman for Burton Holmes presents motion pictures of the Coronation of the Emperor of Abyssinia<\/span><\/p>\n


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1933: “The Century of Progress Exposition” travelogue not popular success <\/span><\/p>\n


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1933: BH debuts on radio <\/span><\/p>\n

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1933: Program: Andre LaVarre fellow traveler of Burton Holmes presents three film talks: <\/span>Paris<\/span>, <\/span>Abyssinia<\/span> and <\/span>Bali<\/span>, booked by The Emerson Bureau, Chicago. Andre\u2019s address is listed as 2 West 67th<\/sup> st, which was <\/span>Burton<\/span> <\/span>Holmes<\/span> <\/span>NY<\/span> apartment where he was living at the time.<\/span><\/p>\n


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1930’s: BH wants to do shows at Carnegie Hall in <\/span>New York City<\/span>, but they do not have a movie screen. BH pays for one to be installed. It’s so big and heavy that it can’t be disassembled; so it becomes a permanent fixture there, owned by Holmes but used by the Hall. <\/span><\/p>\n


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1933: Program: Carnegie Hall, <\/span>Pittsburgh<\/span>, Vienna Life, an illustrated travelogue by Burton Holmes with motion pictures by Andre La Varre<\/span><\/p>\n


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1934: BH visits <\/span>Russia<\/span> and loves the place; writes The Traveler’s Russia<\/em>, which sells poorly <\/span><\/p>\n


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1935: Andre de la Varre stops working with BH<\/span><\/p>\n


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1935: Robert R. Hollingsworth born.<\/span><\/p>\n


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1936, Sept 11: Letter from BH at Hotel Ambassador in <\/span>Paris<\/span> to Andre La Varre in <\/span>Vienna<\/span> talking about seeing color film Andre shot, a new Sinclair camera, and several comments about funds<\/span><\/p>\n


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1936, Sept 16: Letter from BH at Hotel Walter-Garni in Lugano to Andre.<\/span><\/p>\n


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1936, January: Thayer Soule hears BH lecture in <\/span>Boston<\/span> and talks to him after the show; is given pass to future shows and comes to all of them. Walter Everest of <\/span>Boston<\/span> joins BHT as Manager. <\/span><\/p>\n


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1939, July: Thayer Soule (TS) graduates from Harvard and goes immediately to work for BHT. BH leg crushed in automobile accident in <\/span>Finland<\/span>; recovery is long and painful and he always walks with a limp afterward. BH still manages to do the 1939-40 season shows, with some help. <\/span><\/p>\n


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1940: BHT begins using 16 mm Kodachrome film to replace monochrome 35 mm for its film work. Soule and George Trickey shoot “Seven Wonders of the West” on Kodachrome 16 mm movie film and 35 mm slide film; it opens successfully but the 35 mm slides are too small <\/span><\/p>\n


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1941: BH and Thayer Soule produce shows “The Great Southwest,” “<\/span>Alaska<\/span>,” and “The Canadian Rockies” for the new season, using 16 mm Kodachrome movie film and 4 x 5 transparencies for slides. Slides are determined to be too difficult to work with and are dropped from the shows, leaving only movies. Soule joins the Marines as a combat photographer at the end of 1941, returning to BHT in 1945.<\/span><\/p>\n


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1946: Thayer Soule and Bob VanDerveer shoot movie film in <\/span>Mexico<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n


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1944: BH first appears on television <\/span><\/p>\n


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1946: BH moves into Topside for part of each year. <\/span><\/p>\n


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1946: TS and Joe Franklin make new shows “The Road to <\/span>Panama<\/span>” and “The Great Southwest” <\/span><\/p>\n


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1946-47: BH sells <\/span>Manhattan<\/span> apartment “Nirvana” to Robert Ripley. <\/span><\/p>\n


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1947, January: BH transfers his boutonniere to TS at a show, annointing him his successor. Segments of a show on the <\/span>Grand Canyon<\/span> use Grof\u00e9s “On the Trail” for background music; rights are too expensive, so BH gets permission directly from Grof\u00e9. TS presents “<\/span>Mexico<\/span>” <\/span><\/p>\n


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1947-48: Ted Phillips is fired and replaced by Grant Wolfkill. TS and GW make new shows “Amazing Arizona,” and “The Canadian Rockies” in 1947, and “<\/span>Switzerland<\/span>” in 1948. GW continues to work for BH doing filming but eventually leaves for the BBC and NBC. <\/span><\/p>\n


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1947-57 (?): The BH “Circuit” is generally of the form (1) in January, Brooklyn, Rochester, Boston, Philadelphia, New York City; (2) in February, Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, and St. Louis; (3) in September, San Diego, Pasadena, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara; and (4) in October, Louisville, Indianapolis, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and Saint Paul <\/span><\/p>\n


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1948: <\/span>WABC<\/span>-TV in <\/span>New York City<\/span> runs a series of travel shows, including some using BH films. TS presents “The Road to <\/span>Panama<\/span>” <\/span><\/p>\n


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1948-51: BH produces five sound films for sale, narrated by BH: “Tulip Time in <\/span>Holland<\/span>, <\/span>Michigan<\/span>” and by TS: “Song of the <\/span>Rockies<\/span>,” “Weekend in <\/span>Mexico<\/span>,” “Andean Glimpses,” and “Surprising South Africa.” They sell poorly. <\/span><\/p>\n


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1949: <\/span>Santa Fe<\/span> Railroad asks BH to do thirteen 30-minute television programs based on their older films, converted to black-and-white and with new filmed introductions. The series is shown on television and a small number of other cities, but is not considered a success. <\/span><\/p>\n


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1949: TS presents “<\/span>Sweden<\/span>” and “<\/span>Switzerland<\/span>.” TS and Glen Howit (projectionist for BH) first meet Robert Mallett (RM) in <\/span>Japan<\/span>, and introduce him to BH. RM has been giving lectures under the name Kent Roberts, and though he knows nothing about photography, he is hired by BH for his talent as an entertainer. Working with Mallett is Robert Hollingsworth. RM and RH are to be the last maintainers of the Burton Holmes companies, and will make some films. <\/span><\/p>\n


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1950: BHT begins to use tape recordings to provide occasional music supplementing the narration. TS presents “<\/span>Hawaii<\/span>” and “Around the World” <\/span><\/p>\n


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1950-53: George W. “Bill” Perkins and Lowell Wentworth make film on <\/span>New England<\/span> for BHT, but soon leave the company <\/span><\/p>\n


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1951, 10 September: BH suffers stroke at Topside, and is forced by health problems to stop doing shows. TS stands in for him in the <\/span>California<\/span> cities with “<\/span>Bermuda<\/span>, <\/span>Nassau<\/span>, <\/span>Miami<\/span>.” In the ensuing months TS and RM do more than 250 scheduled shows, while cancelling 80 more. BH withdraws from direction of the shows, but still retains an interest in BHT operations. <\/span><\/p>\n


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1951: TS presents “<\/span>South Africa<\/span>” and “The Eastern Congo” <\/span><\/p>\n


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1952: TS presents “<\/span>England<\/span>,” “<\/span>Australia<\/span>,” “<\/span>New England<\/span>,” and “<\/span>France<\/span>” <\/span><\/p>\n


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1953, Feb 27: Letter from BH at Topside to Andre Sr. <\/span>\u201c\u2026Receipts are away off this year. People can now sit in slippered ease at home and see rotten travel pictures on their TV screens.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n


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1953: TS and RH make new films “Charm of the South” and “<\/span>Hawaii<\/span>“. TS presents “<\/span>Spain<\/span>,” <\/span>Germany<\/span>,” and “The <\/span>Mediterranean<\/span>” <\/span><\/p>\n


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1954: TS presents “<\/span>Mexico<\/span>,” “<\/span>Colorado<\/span>,” and “<\/span>Italy<\/span>” <\/span><\/p>\n


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1955: TS presents “<\/span>Cairo<\/span> to <\/span>Baghdad<\/span>,” “<\/span>Switzerland<\/span>,” and “The Caribbean” <\/span><\/p>\n


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1956: TS presents “Charm of the South” and “<\/span>Portugal<\/span>” <\/span><\/p>\n


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1957, Jan 31: BH gives slide collection to UCLA. On <\/span>Feb. 11, 190<\/span> boxes containing 20,000 3 \u00bc\u201d x 4\u201d slides are picked up from <\/span>2020 Grace Ave<\/span>, <\/span>Hollywood<\/span> and taken to UCLA Art Library<\/span><\/p>\n


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1957: TS presents “<\/span>Hawaii<\/span>,” “The Great Northwest,” and “<\/span>Alaska<\/span>” <\/span><\/p>\n


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1958: TS presents “The Golden West,” and “<\/span>Bermuda<\/span>, <\/span>Nassau<\/span>, <\/span>Miami<\/span>.”<\/span><\/p>\n


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1958: Thayer Soule resigns to focus on his own travel shows <\/span><\/p>\n


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1958: Andre de la Varre Sr returns to work with Burton Holmes Inc<\/span><\/p>\n


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1958, 22 June: Burton Holmes dies; burial in Columbarium at Forest Lawn<\/span><\/a>, Glendale CA. Holmes Travelogue shows in the traditional style end a few months later. <\/span><\/p>\n


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1963: Program: <\/span>Burton<\/span> Holmes Travelogues Seventieth Anniversary Series Presents Japan Filmed by Burt Hixson and Grant Wolfkill, Edited by Robert Hollingsworth, presentation and Narration by Robert Mallett<\/span><\/p>\n


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1963: Program: <\/span>Burton<\/span> Holmes Travelogues presents The Pacific Northwest, Films by Robert Hollingsworth, narration by Robert Mallett. The 70th<\/sup> Anniversary series 1893-1963<\/span><\/p>\n


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1963: Program: <\/span>Portugal<\/span> filmed by Andre de la Varre, edited and narrated by Andre de la Varre Jr.<\/span><\/p>\n


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1964: Program: <\/span>Burton<\/span> Holmes Travelogues presents The Great West filmed by Robert Hollingsworth and narrated by Robert Mallett. Season 1964 (71st<\/sup> Year)<\/span><\/p>\n


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1964: Program: <\/span>Burton<\/span> Holmes Travelogues Presents Grand Tour of Europe Produced and Directed by Andre de la Varre and narrated in person by Andre de la Varre Jr.<\/span><\/p>\n


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1965: Program: Andre de la Varre Jr presents a Burton Holmes Theatrical Travelogue \u201c<\/span>London<\/span> and Paris by Day and By Night\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n


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1965: Program: <\/span>Burton<\/span> Holmes Theatrical Travelogues and Andre de la Varre presents Fabulous Spain<\/span><\/p>\n


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1967: Walter Everest dies. <\/span><\/p>\n


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1968: Margaret Holmes dies. Burial in Columbarium at Forest <\/span><\/a>Lawn, <\/span>Glendale<\/span> <\/span>CA<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n


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1968: Louise E. Wood resigns from Burton Holmes Inc.<\/span><\/p>\n


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1970: Last Burton Holmes Inc. travel lectures: “<\/span>Switzerland<\/span>,” “Fabulous Texas,” “<\/span>East Africa<\/span>,” “<\/span>Alaska<\/span> to the <\/span>Andes<\/span>” <\/span><\/p>\n


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1970’s-80’s: Burton Holmes Inc, under the direction of Robert Mallett and Robert Holingsworth changes focus from travelogues to Holography. RH does extensive invention and development work in holographic technology, aiming at full-color image storage and display. <\/span>BHI<\/span> opens <\/span>Odyssey<\/span> <\/span>Image<\/span> <\/span>Center<\/span> in street level of the <\/span>BHI<\/span> building on Sunset Strip, selling holographic images made by themselves and by others. <\/span><\/p>\n


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Mid-late 1980’s: <\/span>BHI<\/span> building is sold and new landlord wants higher rent. <\/span>BHI<\/span>, which has been struggling to stay afloat, closes down. <\/span><\/p>\n


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1984: In an Austrian newspaper interview Andre de la Varre Sr says he was involved in making 150 Burton Holmes Travelogues <\/span><\/p>\n


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1989: Andre de la Varre Sr. dies in <\/span>Vienna<\/span>, <\/span>Austria<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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