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DetailsOriginal Format: 16mm Colour: Black & White Sound: Silent Duration: 16 mins 40 secs
Subject: ENTERTAINMENT / LEISURE TRAVEL
Summary This is a film of a boat trip to, and along, the Panama Canal, with passengers enjoying games on the cruise ship. It ends on a chicken farm in England.
Description
This is a film of a boat trip to, and along, the Panama Canal, with passengers enjoying games on the cruise ship. It ends on a chicken farm in England.
A ship, the “Rangitane, Wellington”, stands in the docks, possibly at Plymouth. Dockers are seen making their way home from work. This is followed by a city scene with pedestrians and traffic, The ship is being unloaded and then leaves, waved off by a large crowd standing on the dock. On board there is a comedy show of “Neptune’s Court”...
This is a film of a boat trip to, and along, the Panama Canal, with passengers enjoying games on the cruise ship. It ends on a chicken farm in England.
A ship, the “Rangitane, Wellington”, stands in the docks, possibly at Plymouth. Dockers are seen making their way home from work. This is followed by a city scene with pedestrians and traffic, The ship is being unloaded and then leaves, waved off by a large crowd standing on the dock. On board there is a comedy show of “Neptune’s Court” with performers wearing a variety of costumes for characters from different historical periods and countries. Two women seated on the edge of the swimming pool, with their backs to the water, get pushed in.
There is a short break, and then there is a leisure boat going along the Panama Canal, going through a lock, being pulled by a locomotive on rails running along the side of the canal. There is someone in what looks to be a Canadian Army uniform. The journey continues on the other side, passing some dredging work, with one of the passengers looking like George Bernard Shaw. Again there is a short break before we are back again on the ship where passengers and staff are playing a game on the deck of football slalom, going around bottles, and then playing a game involving crouching down low with a stick between the legs of the players. The ship’s crew line up for inspection.
Out at sea they pass another ship, while on the deck another game is being played of throwing rings onto a target, while others lounge on sunbeds. A pilot boat passes by, and the luggage is unloaded onto a smaller boat. They enter a harbour having lots of other boats and ships.
The film switches to land, possibly West Yorkshire, and a chicken farm, where chickens, taken out of small boxes, are tethered to sticks in the ground and fed. The film ends with a brief view of their home.