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Charming Ceylon
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Charming Ceylon

Nov 25, 1930
0h 8m
★ 0.0

Overview

This Traveltalk series short takes the viewer to the island nation when it was still a British crown colony and the name Sri Lanka was 40 years in the future.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

Cast

James A. FitzPatrick

Narrator (voice)

James A. FitzPatrick

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