Panama, the Crossroads of the Western World

Year Published: 1947

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Description: Shows how Panama's narrowness and strategic position have elevated its importance as a trading path between the East and the West. Pictures in Panama City and Colon the cultural blending in architecture between the traditional Spanish and the newer North American influence. Gives glimpses of the life of the "mestizos" and the more primitive tribes farther inland, uses animated maps to show the relation of rainfall to vegetation, enumerates Panama's principal exports and imports, and pictures its native markets and the sea wall and the harbor at Panama City.

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