Go Back In Time with This Vintage Michigan Travelogue [Video]

James FitzPatrick's "Travel Talks" was a '40s short film series that played before feature films nationwide.

In "Roaming Through Michigan," FitzPatrick shares the wonders of Up North with the rest of the U.S.

In addition to showing off beautiful vistas in Northern Michigan from a simpler time, it features FitzPatrick's homey narration, which may or may not play loose with some facts. 

FitzPatrick claims the Sleeping Bear Dunes are moving toward Glen Lake at a rate of six feet a year.

If I do the math on that, I'm pretty sure M-109 would be buried by now, but that's just nit-picking on a film that transports us back in time.

Some of the highlights:

• Dunesmobiles.
• A simpler, much  less commercial Traverse City.
• Women in dresses harvesting cherries. (I'm sure this happened all the time.)
• A Harrison man (Spikehorn Meyers) who would rather live with "dumb animals" than people.
• Women in strange 1940s bathing attire.

Enjoy. It's worth the summer break on this wintry day.