Out of This World

Out of This World

A Rare Glimpse of the Strange and Exotic Land of Tibet!

1954 · 75 min · Documentary

Filmed in 1949 when Lowell Thomas and Lowell Thomas Jr. took a journey to Tibet before the Chinese had moved in. It shows Tibet as it was then and, for that matter, as it had been for centuries.

Directed by Lowell Thomas

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