Fifteen years after INDIA ON PARADE, James Fitzpatrick sent the Technicolor cameras back to India for a look at the land after independence. Gone are the bejeweled elephants, but we do get to see the well-to-do at their leisure, at the horse races, dancing and, of course, going to the movies. Bollywood was not the major force it is now, but was it wise for Hollywood to even acknowledge its competitor? Wasn't there a Loew's theater to put on view in an MGM release.
One thing unchanged from the earlier Traveltalk is the ending with the Taj Mahal. Fitzpatrick's narration concerning it is a paraphrase of his discussion in the earlier movie. Perhaps it was the same speech he gave his rich and elderly customers at the travel agency he also ran. Maybe that is the answer to the mystery of why he always sounded like he was talking to people who were hard of hearing: they usually were.