ABSTRACT
Going Places Who first called them travelogues? One of the most obvious uses of the film camera is to let us look at new places. Certainly I almost always enjoy it, but there's just that bit of prejudice. That voice which "said goodbye to beautiful wherever" has bitten into the memory. It's some indication of the power of monopoly that any such voice should have acquired so general a resonance. It's like the more serious case of Disney's way of seeing people and animals taking over a whole sector of civilisation. And then we add to the memory of the voice the commonplace joke about holiday snapshots: another simple pleasure that has become a byword for silliness, without any justification that I can see. Unless there's a feeling that more creative art, more creative television, is being limited by assorted travel. It may sometimes look like that, in the schedules, but I'd rather fight for the creative work on its own terms, without having to do down, by the way, things that are pleasant and easy and within almost everyone's range.
