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In , Holmes accompanied his grandmother on a trip to Europe and when he returned showed slides of his trip at the Chicago Camera Club, of which he was a member. Holmes wrote of this event: "To take the edge off the silence, to keep the show moving, I wrote an account of my journey and read it, as the stereopticon man changed slides. In , after sending out 2, invitations to a select group of people from Chicago, Holmes gave two sold-out talks about a recent trip to Japan.
Initially Holmes had only modest success as a travel lecturer. Then in , John L. Stoddard retired, creating something of a vacuum in the field. Around the same time, Holmes began to supplement his hand-colored glass slides with the then excitingly new technology of moving pictures. As the years went on, film came increasingly to dominate his lectures.
He lectured about such topics as the Panama Canal, the "Frivolities of Paris", even the adventures of Richard Halliburton , one of his competitors in the travel lecture profession. He visited the first modern Olympics in , rode the first trans-Siberian train, and shot what may be the first movies ever made of Japan, in , as well as the first recorded video footage of Korea.
As Holmes became more well-known, he brought along assistants, such as Andre de la Varre , to shoot film and stills while he made notes for his lectures, and he also employed a business manager. Holmes's talks—which totaled over 8, by the end of his life—drew their largest audiences in cosmopolitan cities like New York, Boston, and Philadelphia.
He catered especially to the armchair traveler with escapist fantasies, and for this reason he consciously focused his lectures on the most agreeable and scenic aspects of the places he lectured about. He avoided all discussion of politics, poverty, and other social ills. In , Holmes married Margaret Oliver, whom he had met on one of his expeditions.
They lived primarily at an estate called "Topside" in the Hollywood Hills that was a former riding club. Holmes also had a duplex, "Nirvana", in New York that was packed with treasures from Southeast Asia; this he eventually sold to Robert Ripley. Burton Holmes has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In , reels of Holmes's documentary footage, long thought lost, turned up in an abandoned storage unit.
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