News on Screen

Series

Series Name

Topical Budget

Issue

Issue No.

453-2

Date Released

3 May 1920

Stories in this Issue:

• 1. The Prince of Wales
• 2. The Prince Reaches the Isthmus
• 3. Vive Le Football
• 4. Greatest Labour Day on Record

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 4

Summary

[SUBTITLE]: "And the President of Panama boards Renown at Colon. Colon was delighted when the Prince went ashore. "The mighty Renown just squeezes through the great Gatun Lock into the Panama Canal, which cuts the waist of the world". "American engineers show the Prince the wonders of the towering Gatun dam and ... the ponderous gates to the west swing open that the Prince may pass to the Pacific". "HRH lands at San Diego, and American citizens wave a wild welcome to Britain’s Prince in the vast stadium". "Bowered amid eucalyptus branches, the Prince, speaking through an electric megaphone, rouses 20,000 people to a thunder of cheers"." Prince of Wales passes through the Panama Canal [31st March] and makes a speech at San Diego [8th April].

Keywords

Royalty; Navy; Military

Credits:

Camera

William George Barker

This series is held by:

Film Archive

Name

British Film Institute (BFI)

Email

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nonfictioncurators@bfi.org.uk
For commercial/footage reuse enquiries:
footage.films@bfi.org.uk

Web

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Phone

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Fax

020 7580 7503

Address

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London W1T 1LN

Notes

The BFI National Archive also preserves the original nitrate film copies of British Movietone News, British Paramount News, Empire News Bulletin, Gaumont British News, Gaumont Graphic, Gaumont Sound News and Universal News (the World War II years are covered by the Imperial War Museum).

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