The name “Technicolor Adventure” was used by Warner Bros. to define its one-reel (mostly 9–10 minutes in length) film shorts that were not part of the Sports Parade, also shot in Technicolor in the 1940s. Most were travelogues or human interest documentary films. Gordon Hollingshead produced most of them, with music scores provided by Howard Jackson.
List of films by title / major credits (not complete) / release date or copyright date (marked ©) / notes:
Title | Major credits | Release date | Notes | |
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Fashions for Tomorrow | November 17, 1945 | |||
In Old Santa Fe | producers: A. Pam Blumenthal & Van Campen Heilner (producers); André de la Varre (director); narrator: Truman Bradley (actor); | January 12, 1946 | covers Santa Fe, New Mexico festival in 1945 | |
All Aboard | March 30, 1946 | history of railroads | ||
Girls and Flowers | May 25, 1946 | visits Holland, Michigan and Cypress Gardens, Florida | ||
Let's Go Camping | Frederick Richards (film editor)
| July 27, 1946 | two girls camp at the Grand Canyon and Painted Desert (Arizona) | |
Adventures in South America | August 10, 1946 | visits Lake Titicaca, La Paz, Cuzco Region, Lima & Peruvian side of the Amazon forests; (© December 30, 1945) | ||
Star Spangled City | October 19, 1946 | Washington D.C. | ||
Rubber River | Sullivan C. Richardson (director); story: Charles Tedford; narrator: Truman Bradley (actor); | November 16, 1946 | Nicaragua Coco River | |
Beautiful Bali | Deane H. Dickason (director) | © December 28, 1946 | travelogue of Bali runs longer than the others (15 minutes) | |
Kingdom of the Wild | Carl Stearns Clancy
| March 15, 1947 | National Park wildlife | |
Circus Horse | June 28, 1947 | mini-western drama | ||
Glamour Town | August 2, 1947 | spring 1946 tour of Hollywood | ||
Branding Irons | August 16, 1947 | King Ranch (Texas) and other ranch locales | ||
Land of Romance | Luis Osorno Barona (director); music: Rex Dunn | September 6, 1947 | southern Mexico | |
Dad Minds the Baby | December 20, 1947 | comedy about infants; (filmed October 1946) | ||
What's Hatchin'? | February 28, 1948 | poultry farms in Long Island | ||
Rhythm of a Big City | March 27, 1948 | New York City tour | ||
Living With Lions | June 5, 1948 | |||
Mysterious Ceylon | September 25, 1948 | |||
Jungle Man Killers | November 6, 1948 | a tiger hunt in Hyderabad | ||
Bannister's Bantering Babies | Constance Bannister | December 4, 1948 | photographer profile | |
Circus Town | January 15, 1949 | filmed in Gainesville, Texas | ||
Camera Angles | © December 15, 1948 | magazine cover photography with cameos by Barbara Bates, Jack Carson, Sonia Henie, Hedy Lamarr & Alexis Smith; (Completed October 1947) | ||
Treachery Rides the Trail | March 19, 1949 | juvenile melodrama | ||
Spring Comes to Niagara | Gordon Sparling (director); narrator: Lamont Tilden | June 18, 1949 | Niagara Falls |