Through the Waist of the World

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

454-1

Date Released

6 May 1920

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Belgium Herself Again
2. 2In Texas They Call It a ‘Round-Up’, But
3. 3The Prince of Wales
4. 4Through the Waist of the World

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "The President of Panama accompanies the Prince on the trip through the Canal. "A landslide delays the Prince three hours". "It was only by desperate efforts that dredgers cleared a passage". "Renown just scrapes round the bend, and, passing through this tropic wilderness, HRH arrives at Panama". "Panama’s last peep of the Prince". "Men of British West India Regiments, now living in Panama, greet their Prince as an old comrade-in-arms". "Driving to the official residence of the President, the Prince bears greetings from the World’s Greatest Empire to the Republic of the Isthmus"." Prince of Wales sails on the ‘Renown’ through the Panama Canal [31st March], and arrives in Panama [2nd April].

Keywords

Royalty; Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Ships and boats; Navy; Military

Credits:

Camera

William George Barker

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British Film Institute (BFI)

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