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'''World Wide Adventures''' is a generalized name applied to [[Warner Bros.]] live-action [[short film]]s of the 1960s. Usually, the trade magazines like [[BoxOffice]] only listed the [[one-reeler]]s (running about 10 minutes in length) under this heading, with the longer films simply dubbed “specials.” For the most part, this was a handy marketing logo for a wide range of shorts of the [[documentary]] genre.

==Overview==

Although the studio sharply curtailed theatrical “live-action” shorts production by 1957, a selective number of [[featurette]]s and [[independent film]]s were distributed along with the [[Looney Tunes]] and [[Merrie Melodies]] [[animated cartoon]]s as material shown before the main feature. By this time it was more profitable to re-release older films rather than make new ones, but theater owners expected a few “new” offerings each year. (At least one of their rivals, [[Universal Pictures]], continued a consistent schedule of both live-action and animated short subjects through 1972.)

While the bulk were independent travelogues, the in-house producers [[Cedric Francis]] and [[William L. Hendricks]] (famous for the final cartoons featuring [[Daffy Duck]] and [[Cool Cat (Looney Tunes)|Cool Cat]]) supervised a few themselves.

Despite being largely forgotten over the decades, a handful have enjoyed a second life as “extras” between main features on [[Turner Classic Movies]], particularly such titles as ''Kingdom of the Saguenay'' and ''See Holland Before It Gets Too Big''.

==List of titles==

Since the live-action short subjects made during this period seldom received proper coverage in periodicals and reference books, this chronological listing is incomplete in its information:

===Marketed as "World Wide Adventures" or "Specials"===

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%;"
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Title
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Major credits
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Running time
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Release date
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Filming location / notes
|-
| ''A Touch of Gold'' || Hamilton Wright || 9 minutes || October 1962 || [[South Africa]]
|-
| ''Fabulous Mexico'' || Hamilton Wright || 9 minutes || October 1962 || [[Mexico]]
|-
| ''Moroccan Rivieras'' || Hamilton Wright (producer); Richard Wright (director) || 9 minutes || February 1963 || [[Morocco]]
|-
| ''Wish and Ticino'' || [[André de la Varre]] || 9 minutes || September 21, 1963 || [[Switzerland]]
|-
| ''A Look at Log Island'' || (Crest Productions) || 9 minutes || October 1963 || [[Stockholm, Sweden]]
|-
| ''With Their Eyes on the Stars'' || [[Cedric Francis]] (producer); music: John Stewart & the Ridgerunners || 17 minutes || February 1, 1964 || documentary on US history (for North American Aviation)
|-
| ''Kingdom of the Saguenay'' || Douglas Sinclair || 9 minutes || February 1, 1964 || [[Québec]]
|-
| ''Report from San Juan'' || (Delta Film International); David Ahlers (producer) || 17 minutes || August 8, 1964 || [[Puerto Rico]]
|-
| ''Cheyenne Autumn Trail'' || (Professional Film Services); Ronald Saland (director); Burt Sloane (writer); [[Ross Lowell]] (camera); Howard Kuperman (editor) || 18 minutes || October 1964 || partly a promotional for [[Cheyenne Autumn]]
|-
| ''Metropolis in Miniature'' || (J & F Productions) || 9 minutes || 1964 (independent release); September 1965 (Warner release) || [[Hershey, Pennsylvania]]
|-
| ''A Free People'' || [[William L. Hendricks]] (producer) || 20 minutes || March 1965 || Various locations in the US, for the US Army
|-
| ''A Country Reborn'' || || 9 minutes || October 1965 || [[Taiwan]]
|-
| ''The Land We Love'' || [[William L. Hendricks]] (producer); [[Raymond Massey]] & [[Hubert Humphrey]] (narrator/hosts) || 18 minutes || February 1966 || Made for [[U.S. savings bonds]]
|-
| ''Bolivia- The Last Frontier'' || Hamilton Wright (producer); narrator: Andre Baruch || 18 minutes || August 1966 || [[Bolivia]]
|-
| ''Hollywood Star-Spangled Revue'' || [[William L. Hendricks]] (producer) || 10 minutes || September 17, 1966 || [[Hollywood, Los Angeles|Hollywood]], made for [[U.S. savings bonds]] with [[Bob Hope]], [[Phyllis Diller]], [[James Stewart]], [[Herb Alpert]], the Rockettes, Carlyn Jones & [[Joanie Sommers]]
|-
| ''The Fastest Automobile in the World'' || || 9 minutes || November 5, 1966 || Bob and [[Bill Summers (car builder)]] testing the [[Goldenrod (car)]] in [[Bonneville Salt Flats]]
|-
| ''Where in the World?'' || Hamilton Wright (producer) || 10 minutes || November 30, 1966 ||
|-
| ''Precision'' || ([[National Film Board of Canada]]); George Dufaux || 10 minutes || 1966 (Canada); December 30, 1967 (Warner release) ||
|-
| ''Holiday Afloat'' || || 10 minutes || February 15?, 1967 ||
|-
| ''Motion (Man In Motion / La Mouvement)'' || || || April 1967 ([[Expo 67]]); February 1, 1969 (Warner release) ||
|-
| ''Sky Over Holland (Ciels de Haollande)'' || John Fernhout || 22 minutes || May 1967 ([[Cannes Film Festival]]); April 30, 1968 (Warner release) || 70mm views of [[Netherlands]]
|-
| ''33 Fathoms Deep (33 Fathoms Plus)'' || Robert J. Ellsworth || 17 minutes || July 1967 (independent release); February 12, 1968 (Warner release) || Bob Croft and others diving in [[Florida]]
|-
| ''Le Pecheur a l'Ecoute (Fisherman's Fall)'' || ([[National Film Board of Canada]]); Robert Nichol (director) || 16 minutes || 1967 (Canada release); November 23, 1968 (Warner release) ||
|-
| ''Claybirds Are Coming'' || Hamilton Wright (producer) || 9 minutes || February 21, 1968 ||
|-
| ''Newfoundland's Fighting Fish'' || || 16 minutes || March 2, 1968 || Canadian import
|-
| ''Rolling Down the Rhine'' || (Crest Productions) || 9 minutes || March 23, 1968 || [[Switzerland]], [[Austria]] & [[Germany]]
|-
| ''Tower'' || (Seneca Productions / Allied Chemical Corporation) || 9 minutes || April 27, 1968 ||
|-
| ''Sea and Ski (From Sea to Ski)'' || || 18 minutes || November 2, 1968 ||
|-
| ''Big John'' || Art Mayer || 9 minutes || February 8, 1969 ||
|-
| ''See Holland Before It Gets Too Big'' || (Netherlands National Tourist Office); Norman Weissman (director); Robert Klinkert (camera); Dan Barrie (music) || 11 minutes || April 5, 1969 || [[Netherlands]]
|-
| ''Upwind Down Under'' || Art Mayer || 9 minutes || April 12, 1969 || sailing off [[Sydney, Australia]]
|-
| ''Season In Tyrol'' || [[William L. Hendricks]] (producer); Kurt Jetmar (director); Efrem Zimbalist Jr. (narrator) || 19 minutes || June 14, 1969 || [[Austria]]
|-
| ''Freedom Road'' || (Mattco Associates) || 17 minutes || July 5, 1969 ||
|-
| ''Harry, Come Sail with Me'' || Hamilton Wright (producer) || 10 minutes || August 23, 1969 ||
|-
| ''Annabel Lee: Story by Edgar Allan Poe'' || Ron Morante; [[Vincent Price]] (narrator) || 10 minutes || November 22, 1969 ||
|-
| ''The Lemmings'' || Mark Obenhaus<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=mOMiAQAAMAAJ&q ''Billboard'' Volume 8 article spells the name "Obenhouse"]</ref> || 10 minutes || November 22, 1969 ||
|-
| ''One Giant Leap'' || ([[Rockwell International|North America Rockwell Corporation]] and [[NASA]]);<ref>[https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/100853155/ ''Cincinnati Inquirer'', June 17, 1970]</ref> narrator: [[Gordon MacRae]] || 18 minutes || March 28, 1970 || profiles [[Apollo 11]]
|-
| ''A Walk Through the Sounds of Switzerland'' || (Swiss National Tourist Office); André de la Varre Jr. (director) || 9 minutes || July 1, 1970 || [[Switzerland]]
|}

===Assorted later shorts distributed by Warner Bros.===

{| class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%;"
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Title
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Major credits
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Running time
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Release date
! style="background:#B0C4DE;" | Filming location / notes
|-
| ''The Karmon-Israeli Dancers And Theodore Bikel''<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/title/karmon-israeli-dancers-and-singers/oclc/23009903&referer=brief_results OCLC WorldCat listing]</ref> || (Zavala-Riss Productions) || 25 minutes || January 1972 || filmed 1970
|-
| ''[[Jungle Habitat]]'' || || 9 minutes || March 19, 1973 || profiles a theme park
|-
| ''An American Partnership''<ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/title/american-partnership/oclc/5606417&referer=brief_results OCLC WorldCat listing]</ref> || [[William L. Hendricks]] (producer); narrator: [[William Conrad]] || 13 minutes || 1974 || Made for [[U.S. savings bonds]]
|-
| ''Free Enterprise'' <ref>[http://www.worldcat.org/title/free-enterprise/oclc/4347448&referer=brief_results OCLC WorldCat listing]</ref>|| [[William L. Hendricks]] (producer); Hal Greer; narrator: [[Efrem Zimbalist Jr.]] || 15 minutes || 1975 ||
|}

==See also==
*[[List of short subjects by Hollywood studio#Warner Brothers]]
*[[Travelogue (films)]]

== Notes ==
{{Reflist}}

==References==
* Liebman, Roy ''Vitaphone Films – A Catalogue of the Features and Shorts'' 2003 McFarland & Company
* ''Motion Pictures 1960-1969 Catalog of Copyright Entries'' 1971 Library of Congress
* ''Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third Series Volume 24, Parts 12-13, Number 1: Motion Pictures and Filmstrips'' 1970 Library of Congress [https://archive.org/details/catalogofc19703241213libr]
* ''Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third Series Volume 25, Parts 12-13, Number 1: Motion Pictures and Filmstrips'' 1971 Library of Congress [https://archive.org/details/catalogofc19713251213libr]
* ''Catalog of Copyright Entries: Third Series Volume 27, Parts 12-13, Number 1: Motion Pictures'' 1973 Library of Congress [https://archive.org/details/catalogofc19733271213libr]

[[Category:Film series introduced in 1962]]
[[Category:Warner Bros. short films]]
[[Category:Documentary film series]]
[[Category:Short film series]]

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