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:

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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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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'Through the Waist of the World', Topical Budget Issue No. 454-1, 6 May 1920. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/127658 (Accessed 14 Jan 2026)