https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/cbc7a7bc-38a0-49f6-8025-b14fe993f9ba Browse our products on Amazon: https://amzn.to/2YILTSD Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference. This film depicts the Panama Canal and ship transport through it. It gives a step by step demonstration of what a ship goes through while passing through the locks of the Panama Canal. It is presented by World Travel Guide Pictures (:08). An ocean liner will take the trip through the Panama Canal (:23) and it opens with a map showing the United States and South America and how the canal had cut 7,500 miles from the old sea route between coasts of North America (:36). During the gold rush, travelers used the route around Cape Horn (:55). A cartoon drawing shows the three phases of the transit (1:38). These include the climbing of the water staircase which are on both sides of the approach, the crossing of Gatun Lake (1:47) and the descent to normal sea level afterwards. Between each of the lock systems of the canal, lay 35 miles (1:56). The cartoon then shows the lifting of the boat in the first phase which raise it 85 feet above sea level (2:00). The Pedro Miguel lock is pointed to (2:23) as well as the Miraflores lock as the ship descends back to sea level. After the cartoon demonstration, a real-life enactment follows (2:55) as the ocean liner approaches the locks. As it enters the first lock, water bubbles up from the Gatun Lake which push the ship higher (3:03). The ocean liner weighs 34,000 tons and it is lifted at a rate of three feet a minute (3:37). Once it is appropriately elevated, large gates open for the second lock, and here the lifting process is repeated (4:01). Once the vessel has reached the elevation of Gatun Lake, it is able to move through using it’s own power (4:14). A more detailed explanation of what happens while ships move through follows (4:45) as electric tractors initially draw the ship forward. This ship moving through is of the Panama Pacific liners which are some of the many which make routine treks through the canal (5:09). In the central control tower, a control board provides the operator in charge an up to date demonstration of the movements within the locks (5:18). A miniature gate opens on the control board (5:28) at the same time as the actual lock opens (5:27). There is also a miniature replica of the safety chain which rests across a lock and it lowers when ships are given the go ahead to pass through (5:36). When the water rises within the lock, a gauge in the control tower moves accordingly (5:56). Sped up footage follows of the ship continuing through the process until it is able to move through powered on its own (6:11). As the ship moves through Gatun lake, blossoms are seen along the lake’s shoreline as well as the tall Cortez trees (6:45). All along the shoreline are banana plantations on land leased out by the canal authorities (7:07). Natives are seen in canoe’s which act as their delivery transport for the fruit (7:34) that will be brought to the next nearest landing along the canal to be shipped up north. The Chagres River is shown which is damned twice leading to the formation of Gatun Lake and Lake Alajuela (7:51). The ancient trail which was used for three centuries as the America’s only transcontinental highway follows (8:31). Today it is a tourist attraction and is crossed by a modern road (8:37). A small waterfall and Gold Hill overlooking the canal are also shown. As the film concludes, so does the transit of the canal which ends with another lock that descends vessels back down to sea level (9:53). Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD and 2k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GecB1qIRPas Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:01:08 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/cbc7a7bc-38a0-49f6-8025-b14fe993f9ba All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.