The Little Mariner

Duration: 0:20:47

Genre: Educational

Creator: Encyclopaedia Britannica

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: This is a 20-minute nonverbal film depicting the adventures of a small boy who is sailing his toy sailboat in the harbor when he looks up and sees a real sailboat drifting towards him. He runs around trying to find its owner, but in vain. He decides to go sailing. Some of his adventures include narrowly being missed by a speedboat, a tour of a United States Navy aircraft carrier, visit to an amusement park, and having the Coast Guard look for him. At sunset he sails back to the harbor and gets out of the sailboat. Before he remembers to tie it up, it drifts away. EDR 5-75., Portrays, through visuals and a musical background, the adventures of a little boy who sails into the port of Long Beach, California, on a magic sailboat. Shows the boy almost getting run over by a large speed boat, boarding an aircraft carrier and enjoying all of the harbor sights, riding many concessions at Kiddie Land, and almost losing his boat. Records the shore patrol towing the boat and the child home and concludes with the enchanted craft sailing away by itself.

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