20 Aug 1931
I am from Siam
A short documentary about Thailand, formerly known as Siam.
Charming Ceylon
This Traveltalk series short takes the viewer to the island nation when it was still a British crown colony and the name Sri Lanka was 40 years in the future.
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James A. FitzPatrick Narrator (voice)
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