Short film

Alaska Lifeboat

1956 · 21 min

A gentle, plainly narrated mid-century travelogue that ambles through a remote village and its floating clinic, informative rather than gripping.

Directed by: Herbert Morgan
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Ralph Sarlan

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.

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Directed by: Herbert Morgan
Genres: Documentary
Starring: Ralph Sarlan

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Tone: earneststrength 2 of 3
warmstrength 1 of 3
upliftingstrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: background-friendly, 1 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: healing
isolation
faith
family
exploration
Places: small town
sea
wilderness
Era: contemporary
Audience: family
Form: documentary
true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language none
Violence none
Sex none

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Humour	1
Realism	9
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Tension	2
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Complexity	2
Emotional weight	4

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