Alaska Lifeboat

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 21 min
  • Premiere: 1956. November 16.

This "Theater of Life" series short focuses on a medical services ship that stops in the native village of Haines, Alaska. The natives are depicted as superstitious of modern medicine. In the end, however, youngster Ralph Sarlan (the only person identified by the narrator) is taken by airplane to get corrective surgery on his deformed foot.

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Ralph Sarlan

Self - Boy with Hurt Foot (uncredited)

Crew

Floyd Crosby

Cinematography

Directing

Herbert Morgan

Director

Editing

Production

Herbert Morgan

Producer

Sound

Writing

Crew

Floyd Crosby

Cinematography

Directing

Herbert Morgan

Director

Editing

Production

Herbert Morgan

Producer

Sound

Writing