Home Movie: 003469 (silent)

Description: The S.S. California, a Panama-Pacific Line steamship out of San Francisco, moves through the lock system of the Panama Canal. Includes images of Panama City, and a notable scene of Black youth performing for passengers on ship, and clamoring over change dropped by cruisers. Images are high quality.

Can with three items marked "Panama Canal 1929."

Reel marked: "#2 / City of Panama and the Canal."

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Subjects: 1920s, Tourism, Transportation, Boats and boating, People of African origin or descent, Poverty, Cities

Tags: ship in port; cargo-handling infrastructure; Panamá Viejo ruins; Panama City street scenes; Eulo Lupi store; Panama Canal locks; US Army transport boat Chateau Thierry; white touristic gaze; busking; street performers; kids performing for money; kids clamoring over coins; young boys selling newspapers; poverty tourism; steamships

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Contributor: Prelinger Archives

Source Collection: Unidentified Home Movie Collection PC-0282, Prelinger Archives Home Movie Collection

Digitizing Sponsor: Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web (FFDW) and Internet Archive

Production Date: 1929

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Geographical Location: Panama; Panama Canal, Panama; Panama City, Panama; Central America

Genre/Form: home movie

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Film Format: 16mm film

Element: original, reversal

Color: b&w

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Sound or Silent: silent

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Edge Code: circle circle circle

Frame Rate: 16 fps

Length (feet): 403