On Monday I posted a British Pathe newsreel showing the local side of glamorous Rome in 1967. Although the twitty English announcers narration was a tad on the condescending side (more than a tad actually) the lovely color photography made the whole thing a delight to watch. Today we have another one of these mini-travelogues. It’s a BP newsreel piece on Sicily in 1961 and the color is even more lush and lovely than in the previous one. Has someone restored these things? Were they simply locked away in a very properly temperature controlled dustbin? Anyway, it strikes me as oddly appropriate to be off to the bottom of the boot on the eve of you-know-who’s birthday. Enjoy a few minutes in one of the most gorgeous regions known to man. And then there’s the ‘Sicilian Divorce’, a far less happy state of affairs…