History Main / TravelMontage

** ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'' during the opening credits with MessageInABottle asking for help sent by Penny as it floats out to sea and washes up New York, shown by a series of oil painting like panels featuring the message.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'' and the second with a telegraph relay between the Australian Outback and New York portrayed via the "map with arrows" method.

** ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuersDownUnder'' and the second with a telegraph relay between the Australian Outback and New York portrayed via "map with arrows" method.

* The opening credits for both ''WesternAnimation/TheRescuers'' films: the first with a MessageInABottle, and the second with a telegraph line.

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* The epic sense of {{World Building}} encountered in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings'' owes its self in part to this trope. Whenever heroes from The Fellowship travel vast distances, a series of scenes in geographically unique regions - typically of the {{Epic Tracking Shot}} variety - are used to convey the scale of their journey.

* Parodied in ''Film/TheMuppets'' with the car's "Travel by Map" button. Its even a plot point- unlike conventional travel, no time elapses when you travel this way.

* Happens in ''Videogame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'' after Mission 1 and before Mission 2.

* Parodied in the ''Machinima/ArbyNTheChief'' movie, when Chief is escaping from LA it zooms out to the lines, except that since Chief has no idea where he is going, the lines are a tangled mess.

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}}'', with the map being a Waffle World placemat.

* Happens in ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' when Santa's Little Helper runs away.

* The closing credits of ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars 2}}'' show Lightning [=McQueen=] and Mater travelling across the world and visiting car versions of various world landmarks other than the ones in Japan, France, Italy, and England (i.e. The Sagrada Familia cathedral in Spain shaped like sparkplugs, windmills in the Netherlands shaped like cooling fans, the Atomium in Belgium shaped like car pistons, the Parthenon in Greece shaped like a car's radiator, St. Basil's cathedral in Russia shaped like a car's differential casing, the Pyramids of Egypt shaped like the Mitsubishi logo, a rock structure in Africa shaped like a mix between a pickup truck and [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Pride Rock]], the Dubai hotel in the United Arab Emirates shaped like a car's tailfin, the Taj Mahal in India shaped like a car engine, Angkor Wat in Thailand shaped like more sparkplugs, the Petronas towers in Malaysia shaped like a truck's smokestacks, the Great Wall of China shaped like a highway, the Sydney Opera House in Australia shaped like more car tailfins, the UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} statue in Brazil shaped like a Mercedes Gullwing, etc.) before returning to Radiator Springs.

* Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'', in a complicated but hilarious way that's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t23YSJzMEpg better seen than explained.]]

* The closing credits of ''WesternAnimation/{{Cars 2}}'' show Lightning [=McQueen=] and Mater travelling across the world and visiting car versions of various world landmarks other than the ones in Japan, France, Italy, and England (ie The Sagrada Familia cathedral in Spain shaped like sparkplugs, windmills in the Netherlands shaped like cooling fans, the Atomium in Belgium shaped like car pistons, the Parthenon in Greece shaped like a car's radiator, St. Basil's cathedral in Russia shaped like a car's diffrential casing, the Pyramids of Egypt shaped like the Mitsubishi logo, a rock structure in Africa shaped like a mix between a pickup truck and [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Pride Rock]], the Dubai hotel in the United Arab Emirates shaped like a car's tailfin, the Taj Mahal in India shaped like a car engine, Angkor Wat in Thailand shaped like more sparkplugs, the Petronas towers in Malaysia shaped like a truck's smokestacks, the Great Wall of China shaped like a highway, the Sydney Opera House in Australia shaped like more car tailfins, the UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} statue in Brazil shaped like a Mercedes Gullwing, etc) before returning to Radiator Springs.

* Done in ''Film/SkyCaptainAndTheWorldOfTomorrow'', with map grid lines and place names overlayed on the scenery they fly over. As with ''Indiana Jones'', this is an aspect of the film's nature as an homage to 1930s pulp fiction.

* The intro to an obscure shareware PlatformGame ''Drake Snake and the Secret Crypt'' shows the main hero's travel to Africe with a red line on the map, which somehow goes ''below'' the map at times and returns on top through holes.

* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'': There is one in Chapter 11, covering a couple of weeks during which the crew is travelling to a far-away location but runs into noting particularly eventful on the way, aside from their vehicle breaking dow a couple of times. A few shots show that a horde of trolls and ghosts is following them as well, setting up the events of Chapter 13.

* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': Parodied in "Pasadena Jones and the Meaning of Life". The red ''Indiana Jones'' travel montage line moves across the map. Cut to Buster Bunny sitting on top of the red line, muttering, "Someday I'm gonna have to buy an actual plane."

* A very similar principle is often used to show the grown of a rail, road or other networks on homepages, television programs, exhibitions etc. As time go on more and more parts will be added on the map and sometimes disappear again.

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* Happens twice in ''WesternAnimation/{{Dinosaur}}''. The first travel montage involves Aladar's egg being taken away from his mother's nest by an Oviraptor, then rolling off a ledge into a river where it is then carried downstream, and finally being flown to Lemur Island via Pterodactyl; while the second involves Aladar, the lemurs, Eema, Baylene, Url, and the rest of the Herd being forced to march across a desert while searching for the Nesting Grounds, only to stop at a lake that is completely devoid of water let alone Baylene's footprint.

* Done briefly in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' when the class are heading to Costa Rica by bus.

* * ''Film/Transylvania65000'': A montage of planes, trains and buses shows Jack and Gil's journey from the US to Transylvania.

** Also when Homer commands a nuclear submarine and ends leading it to DirtyCommunist waters by error.
*** After crashing the submarine into the compass on the map!

* Shown in the second and third seasons of ''Anime/MysteriousCitiesOfGold'', when the Golden Condor travels to various countries.