“In our seven wonders of the world, shall we include feminine beauty?” asked the documentarian Lowell Thomas in 1956 in the trailer to the Seven Wonders Of The World movie – perhaps the most bizarre contribution among the myriad attempts to update the original list from classical antiquity. It’s a film worth seeking out on YouTube, if only for its sense of self-importance. With his saturnine looks and a voice straight out of Central Casting, Thomas invites viewers to climb into the…

