The Joining of the Oceans, the Panama Canal, October, 1913 (1913)
The picture opens at Colon on the Atlantic side of the Panama Canal. Here we see the new government wharves and the good ship "Fram," patiently waiting to put the crowning touch on her life of splendid achievement, by being among the first vessels to pass through the completed canal. From Colon we pass through the sea-level part of the canal to the series of locks at Gatun, that we may be in time to watch the first boats passing through these gigantic elevators. After we have seen the tugboats, filled with their distinguished guests, raised to a height of seventy feet above sea-level, we emerge into Lake Gatun, the great artificial pond which has been created by the Gatun Dam. We then get brief glimpses of the Pacific end of the canal, the fortified islands in Panama Bay, the shipyards at Balboa, and the completed locks at Miraflores. Then we return to the narrow strip of earth which until October 9 held back the waters of Lake Gatun from the Culebra Cut, the Gamboa Dike. Nearly eighteen thousand pounds of dynamite were planted in this dam in the morning. At one minute after two in the afternoon. President Wilson pressed a telegraph key in Washington, and instantly a tremendous tower of mud, smoke and water lifted itself out of the soil of Panama. When the smoke cleared away, the waters of Lake Gatun could be seen rushing down into the great cut which had been prepared for them, and the last step in the cleaving of a continent was completed.
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