The construction of the Panama Canal from 1908 and 1914 in color! Part-1 [AI enhanced & colorized]

[@Rick88888888]

*Please press the "CC" button* under the film to see the *subtitles with the description* of the locations and events! Kindly help to improve this info! If you like my work, please donate via: www.paypal.com/paypalme/Rick88888888 Thank you very much! If you want to see how the Panama canal looks today then watch this: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aXKQgn1nabFoj9U

[@johanneskingma]

Great movie. The subtitles are out of sync with the image.

[@delyanapetrova3941]

Magnificent footage!!! Almost feels like another world or even planet😃 The steam shovels totally blew me away! Thank you, Rick!

[@hgaillard1623]

My Great Grandfather was Col. David duBose Gaillard. He was the lead engineer to get through the Continental Divide. The Culebra Cut was named the Gaillard Cut while the USA owned it. A lot of the machinery for digging out the Cut was invented for digging out the Cut. They were not filling it back in. They would wake up and find there had been a mudslide during the night that would have filled up what they had previously dug out. The mudslides also buried equipment and destroyed the tracks and trains. This was such a stressful job for my Great Grandfather that he ended up passing away from a brain tumor before the Canal opened. There was a huge plaque in his honor up on Contractors Hill, but it was removed when they widened the Cut. David McCullough interviewed my Grandfather for his book The Path Between the Seas. He was at MIT at the time of the building, and on vacations would also work on the Canal. They had him working on the computerization of the Locks, which were done so well that to my knowledge they have never needed to upgrade them, just maintain them.

[@GreySuitMan]

@@hgaillard1623 The bronze plaque dedicated to Lt. Col. Gaillard was indeed removed from Gaillard Cut to give way to the Canal widening proyect back in the day. But it rests today on a place of honor at the base of the stairs that lead up to the Canal Administration Building, facing the Goethals Monument.

[@InFltSvc]

To see these brave hard working men do this by hand is simply amazing. I read a long time ago that many men died building this and not just from injuries but fever. I don’t think they could have imagined the size of the ships that would pass through it today in 2020.. these were hard working people that made this possible...

[@a4v2rocket]

My grandfather was part of US Army contingent that worked on the canal during the final construction. He passed away before I was born, so I never got to ask him about it.

[@MrDaiseymay]

There was an excellent TV documentary in the late 1960's, all about the history of the Panama Canal. Starting with the attempt by the French, with the guy who built the Suez canal, Ferdinand de Lessops, in charge. The French failed, for many reasons, mostly huge deaths caused by malaria, and lack of enough equippment, then they ran out of money, and were bankrupted. Over the years, the jungle buried all that the French had acheived. Then the Americans , restarted the whole task, solved the Malaria problem, poured masses of money and equippment into the project---and succeeded. Sadly, the documentary was never released as a DVD, and may be lost.

[@jimmyramkisoen191278]

Blijft fascinerend dat het zware graaf werk toen al mogelijk was. Top film weer!

[@BALOYBEACHBUM]

THANK YOU for the History! I went thru it in '83 aboard a US Navy Cruiser and back from the Pacific side, I never realized the amount of time and engineering that went in such a man made marvel! SALUTE!!

[@TheBroadcastStudio365]

Spectaculair! Deze en andere video's zijn allemaal gemaakt met liefde en respect voor wat ooit is geweest. En met een grote expertise ! Bravo 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏 👏

[@johnpotter8039]

I am delighted to have found this video, and the restoration and colorizing.

[@Professor-Patti]

Wow Rick88888888, what a massive project you have done on this film. Another great one for the history classes and folks. Your work is so important and so appreciated!!

[@Rick88888888]

Any progress on your MM project??

[@GreySuitMan]

Great Video!!. The quality and color are amazing. I watched it over and over again , and I would like to add or correct some of the information on the captions. 00:00 Footage of Gatun Locks in the north. Not Miraflores Locks 15:22 “Lidgerwood Unloader” machine in action 17:29 “Dirtspreader” machine in action 28:48 Gatun lower Lock filling up. 29:10 Tugboat “Gatun” makes first trial lockage at Gatun Locks. Sep 26, 1913. Note the tugboat has all his flags up, and the huge crowd gathered for the event. 30:38 Preparing to blast the dike at Gamboa to connect Gatun Lake with Culebra Cut 31:13 Chief Engineer, Colonel George W. Goethals and guests can be seen walking down the dike at Gamboa on October 10, 1913 32:42 Blasting of the dike at Gamboa, October 10, 1913 33:18 Water flows into Culebra Cut. 35:32 Numerous ships enter Gatun Locks 41:05 Dredgers at work to deepen canal at Gamboa 41:36 to 45:32 all views are from Miraflores Locks 45:33 to 48:48 all views are from Pedro Miguel Lock 49:13 Dredges clearing up a slide at Cucaracha 52:40 Dredges clearing up a slide at Cucaracha Again , Great Video. Hoping to see Part 2 soon. Congratulations from Panama.

[@Rick88888888]

Thank you. And thank you very much for your donation too!

[@MrMahicols]

Increíble. Muchas gracias Rick por el trabajo tan bueno que estas haciendo. Saludos

[@TheFreshSpam]

Those old diggers looks a nightmare to operate and looked like a death trap. The whole machines strength basically boils down to a single chain link. One breaks and it cant dig. The whole mechanical advantage relies through how much that chain can handle a beating

[@ttulinsky]

a strong man pulling levers to engage/disengage clutches and gears in the chains, with no power assist, I would guess...exposed chains and cables moving fast, ready to chop off arms and legs.. if a chain broke, it would probably whip around with enough force to cut men in half..amazing how fast those things wheel around

[@fnaticfrestwwCSbrablay]

Thanks Rick ✊ Спасибо за видосы. Очень нравится окунутся в прошлое в хорошем качестве ☺

[@miguelangelvalderrama1808]

😍It was in my country 🇵🇦, but this is the first time i watched videos or movies of the construction in color, i have always liked to see those Bucyrus machines with that big shovel. Those Bucyrus were good to have them like in a museum or expositions like in the USA but not 😥 i can see only one Bucyrus crane.

[@user-mx6np3qr8i]

Amazing footage! Just think of the amount of labor that went into building the canal, all the while dealing with tropical climate and diseases. An incredible feat of engineering. Read "The path between the seas" by David McCullough if you want the whole story.

[@Rick88888888]

Good book tip! Thanks.

[@markbrant3931]

Magnificent

[@Lando-kx6so]

My great grandfather from Jamaica worked on this

[@marcelgordijn1400]

Truly amazing.

[@okok-kn6ee]

hey rick echt sick hoe je deze beelden weet de weergeven in kleur!

[@rabishrestha804]

Where would we be without machines and electricity

[@MrDaiseymay]

Most of these MASSIVE Steam Shovels, were made by Bucyrus , of America.

[@tomihaili8756]

As a construction worker I noticed the lack of safety regulations, there´s nothing stopping you from falling in the canal.

[@bluecollar58]

Over 20,000 men died constructing this canal. Disease , hit by trains , flying rock , crushed , blown up and drowned. They used 61,000,000 pounds of dynamite to make the cut.

[@vladislav_ivanovskiy]

Bravo!

[@krisss9987]

I like your work. I'm from Panama. Thanks.

[@Rick88888888]

Thank you too!

[@goodsummitguy]

5:40 what is it? Excavator? with Fire on it? 😱

[@Rick88888888]

A steam shovel Unfortunately the colorization software sometimes thinks that the steam is fire

[@goodsummitguy]

@@Rick88888888 thankyou

[@tracysrocket]

@@Rick88888888 Fire looks way cooler

[@GrrMeister]

*Amazing that's all I can Say at this Project*

[@RimshotsandNamaste]

I wonder which version of autocad and solidworks they used to build this!!

[@James-cs2wi]

The canal was already there they just widened it

[@Rick88888888]

You should be far more precise: The French started to construct the canal in 1881 but gave up mainly due to huge problems and many fatalities related to Malaria. Then the US took over in 1904 and opened the canal in 1914. Before 1881 there was no canal, just jungle and Lake Gatun.

[@artgraficros]

Hola, tienes videos de México y sus Estados?. Felicidades.

[@lowercherty]

One thing I see mossing in all these is track panels. They must not have been invented yet. These are pre assembled rail and ties that go together like a kid's train set. I do see piles of ties and individual rails.

[@rococo9342]

Rikc88888888さんいつも素晴らしい動画をありがとうございます。

[@renvilsekawan]

Still wondering, how steam can be manage to operate complex task such as this shovel machine

[@chrisleggatt3240]

It's a matter of utilising pressure, much the same as modern day hydrolics I guess

[@SGDeGalvez]

yea...thats a real interesting point.

[@JMDinOKC]

Seriously? The entire 19th century is called the Age of Steam. Just about EVERYTHING ran on steam. The engineers of the 19th century got very good at designing steam-powered machinery with complex controls.

[@angelamores9448]

My beautiful country 🥺😭🇵🇦❤. Thanks for that USA 🇺🇲

[@jameslatimer1432]

Built hundreds of years ago not New

[@V0YAG3R]

James Latimer And islam is a religion of peace 👌🏻

[@jameslatimer1432]

It was already built all they did was clear away the silt and rubbish that had been droped it the canal ,,

[@V0YAG3R]

James Latimer And islam is a religion of peace 👌🏻

[@MrDaiseymay]

yoooo silly twisted boy you.

[@Rick88888888]

Oh please, get your facts straight and do some more reading. What you are proclaiming is total nonsence.

[@JamesHawkeYouTube]

Something very odd is going on here. Who are all these strange actors standing around doing nothing, what is all this decrepit machinery? It's a sad mess. Men in white shirts and pants with not a dirt stain to be seen. They look like they never did a day's work in their lives. Such a mammoth project of an unimaginable scale...and these fellows did it...??? No. There is some very strange history going on and we have not been told truth.

[@directive0]

No, its just a film of them constructing the Panama Canal.

[@bipbop5089]

it literally shows them filling it, did they empty it just to refill it?

[@Steamforger]

Marcus, the film has been recoloured using AI technology. The program is unable to distinguish the exact markings on the shirts because this was originally recorded monochromatically (black and white) over one hundred years ago, and uses machine learning to approximate what colour things would be based on the gradient of the white/black. For an example, see 22:58: the contrast of the linen shirts worn by the workers in comparison to the earth results in this stark white contrast. It is not an entirely accurate process, because the original footage does not contain any RGB information. The only strangeness to the Panama Canal's history that you see above is that it is now able to be viewed virtually anywhere in the world, digitally, and in colour. Apologies for the simplistic answer, but this is to ensure anyone else coming across your comment doesn't mistake it for something credible.

[@ttulinsky]

Must have been built by aliens.

[@visualartistrybynorthe2128]

I’m sorry that you come from such a sheltered world where you can’t imagine anything outside of a can of beer and your pickup truck. It’s time to get cultured. The Panama Canal was built by these hardworking men showed in this video. Probably did more work in a day than you’ve done your entire life. Get educated because you seem like you’re on the spectrum at this point.