The Inside Passage (1941)

James A. FitzPatrick: Self - Narrator

Quotes 

• [first lines] 

  [A map of North America appears on screen; then a map of Alaska with the Inside Passage highlighted] 

  Narrator : Uncle Sam's Alaska looms into the limelight of current events as a possible haven for many of the unfortunate peoples who have been driven from their native lands by the dictates of tyranny and the horrors of war. The usual approach to this land of promise is by way of the so-called Inside Passage, a remarkable salt water route extending from Seattle to Skagway, through a network of well-protected channels, along the shores of which are many good harbors, ...

  [Scene changes to a view of Ketchikan, Alaska's harbor from aboard ship] 

  Narrator : ... beginning with that of Ketchikan, into which we now sail.

• [last lines] 

  [view of the harbor in Petersburg, Alaska] 

  Narrator : And so it goes in Alaska, the land of promise, where a mere 60,000 inhabitants are trying to develop a territory that is ample in size to take care of more than a million people who would seek their fortunes under the Stars and Stripes on the last frontier of Uncle Sam.