Alaska Lifeboat (1956)
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Overview : 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.
Release Date : November 16, 1956
Runtime : 21m
Genre : Documentary
Companies : RKO Radio Pictures
Countries : United States of America
Keywords : alaska, public health
