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Canal Zone

Frederick Wiseman
1977 United States 174 minutes English

Canal Zone is about the people who live and work in the Panama Canal Zone and shows both the operation of the Canal and the various governmental agencies’ business, military, and civilian related to the functioning of the Canal and the lives of the Americans in the zone. The film includes sequences of ships in transit, the work of special canal pilots, aspects of the civil government, work of the military, and the social, religious and recreational life of the Zonians.

Production :
Zipporah Films
Distribution :
Zipporah Films
Editing :
Frederick Wiseman
Sound :
Frederick Wiseman
Photography :
William (Bill) Brayne

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