Skipper's lady : duty first

Duration: 0:20:48

Genre: Drama

Creator: Indiana University Audio-Visual Center: Distributor | Teaching Film Custodians: Distributor

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Description: Teaching Film Custodians abridged classroom version of Cavalcade of America television series episode, "The Skipper's Lady" (season 2, episode 31), which originally aired on June 8th, 1954 on ABC-TV. Based on an historical incident, the film dramatizes the courage and skill of a captain's wife who was forced to assume command of a clipper ship sailing from New York to San Francisco in 1840 with the annual government allotment of supplies for the Native Americans of California and Oregon.

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