Rudy Burkhardt was a man who liked to go around the world and shoot travelogues: not the high-toned travelogues that James Fitzpatrick shot for MGM and which served, often as not, as advertising for his other job -- he ran a travel agency; not the studies in color and portraiture that Jack Cardiff honed his craft on, but pieces like this, in which he showed his audience ordinary people doing ordinary things, walking on the streets during the day, playing craps at a club or dancing at night. He didn't focus on domes and works of arts, but on trees and cross beams and bedrooms with only a cheap chromo of a Madonna for decoration.
Did he have some political purpose in this, to show that the rich live pretty much the same every place, but that so do the poor, and there are a lot more of them?
