PANAMA CANAL AND JAMAICA MILLAR PERSONAL FILM 6

This film is held by the BFI (ID: 519441).

Synopsis

Amateur film of a trip along the Panama Canal, and to Jamaica.

Pelicans and guanos off Lobos de Afuera (Peru). The crescent moon and after glow just before passing Lobitos oil fields (Peru). Entering the Panama Canal. Various shots of Madden Dam. Pan of Panama. Leaving Balboa. Approaching Miraflores Lock; dock engines climbing; gates opening; the dock filling; leaving the lock. Houses near Pedro Miguel Lock, passing through the lock. Entering Culebra (Gaillard) Cut, passing though narrows. A steamer approaches and passes. Turn into Gatun Lake, then Gatun Locks. Colon and Christobal (Cristóbal), at the end of the Panama Canal. Members of the travelling party wave. Entering Jamaica by Port Royal. A banana cart at Kingston; various trees. A car descending a hill and Fern Gulley(?). Ocho Rios Bay. Picnic at Dunn's(?) River. St Ann's Bay street scene. Pan of wooded hills. Sugar Cane growing, loading sugar gane. Pan of Jamaica. A native woman embroidering a fan. Kingston Main Street. Grinding sugar cane. Local people at work in tobacco fields. Boys diving.

Note: Details taken from a log book compiled by the filmmaker.

 

Titles

  • PANAMA CANAL AND JAMAICA MILLAR PERSONAL FILM 6 (Archive)
 

Technical Data

Year:
1938
Film Gauge (Format):
16mm Film
Colour:
Colour (Kodachrome)
Sound:
Silent
Footage:
400 ft
 

Production Credits

Production Countries:
Great Britain
Photography
MILLAR, Harold B.
 

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