The Panama and the Canal from an Aeroplane

The Panama and the Canal from an Aeroplane is a 1914 silent actuality film taken by pilot Robert G. Fowler and cameraman Ray Duhem on April 27, 1913. Fowler was making the first nonstop trans-Panama flight, Pacific-to-Atlantic, in an aeroplane and took along Duhem and his film camera. They flew over the still uncompleted Panama Canal and filmed scenes that later got them in trouble with the Department of War because they showed military fortifications in construction.[2]

The Panama and the Canal from an Aeroplane
still of the Canal as seen from the Fowler plane published in Sunset Magazine.
Directed byRobert G. Fowler
Produced byDuhem Motion Picture Company
George F. Cosby
M. B. Dudley
Written byRiley A. Scott
Charles K. Field
StarringRobert G. Fowler
CinematographyRaymond Andre Duhem[1]
Running time
6 parts
CountryUSA
LanguageSilent..English titles
Gage biplane used for the pioneering flight, preserved at the Smithsonian's Udvar-Hazy facility

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References

  1. Ray Duhem; findagrave.com
  2. Daily Wireless News; The Garden Island newspaper; Tuesday July 14, 1914 Lihue, Kauai, HT Hawaii
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