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The Mighty Mississippi: The Worry Box (1955-00-00)
About this film
The Mississippi is a treacherous highway for the thousands of boats that travel her course each year, the Finder (Steve Bloomer) learns during his St. Louis to New Orleans river trip. As he stands midnight watch with the boat captain, he discovers why pilots call the Mississippi, "The Worry Box." This episode also aired as the twentieth episode of the 1962 rebroadcast. (Description adapted from documents in the NET Microfiche)
Directors & creators
KETC-TV (Television station : Saint Louis, Mo.)
Subjects
Mississippi River, river navigation, steamboat, river pilots, St. Louis, New Orleans, inland waterways, early television, educational television, 1950s television, KETC, National Educational Television, river life, transportation history
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