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This article reflects on the connections, not always so dichotomous, between socially legitimized discourses like reality and the discourses leaning on the notion of spectacle and entertainment, focusing thus on the universe of travelogues – trip movies – very popular between between 1910 and 1930, especially in the context of the United States of America. On one side, the travelogues helped to shape the documentary narrative, reaffirming a certain scientific/educational legitimacy; on another hand, they mobilized a desire for spectacle and fascination with media reproduction technology that already had a privileged place in the popular imagination as an ambiguous form of entertainment and knowledge since the end of the 19th century.

Travel knowledge – the travelogues in an amalgam of reality and spectacle