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Encouraged by his success, Branson embarked on a journey throughout the United States, lecturing to local community organizations about his travels by using a projector and up to 150 hand-painted slides synchronized with music. He called these shows "dream pictures", and, encouraged by their success
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143:. Two years later, traveling to Moscow and Leningrad again, he was briefly arrested for suspicious filming of the city center. In March 1932, Branson married his second wife Elsie Vera Stanley, with whom he traveled extensively and replaced Branson every other day during longer performances.
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