People Along The Mississippi Pt 2 of 2

People Along The Mississippi Pt 2 of 2 Encylopaedia Britannica Films St. Louis, Missouri Riverboat docked; girl ties model paddle steamer to back of Robert’s sailboat. Black boy w/ White friend spot boat floating past levee - Louisiana(?). Boat floats thru flooded small town. Black kid finds boat, runs across town to show friend ; says he’s busy playing w/ his White friends, then changes mind & chases after him, puts boat back in levee - VO “your boat sort of brought two old friends back together again”. 20:18:36 Sailboat arrives in port of New Orleans, freighters, cargo ships loading. caught in steamer’s paddle wheel. CU steam whistle. Taken into bayou, found by Cajun boys in canoes; alligators scare them off. Fishermen find sailboat in nets, “way off course”. Gulf shrimp fleet. Sailboat caught in storm. 20:20:52 Black boy & girl walk along railway track; find boat in reeds. They change ‘Down The Missippi’ on sail to ‘Around the World’. CU Robert smiles as he reads their letter back in Itasca, Minnesota. Aerial shots of river’s end & open sea. Non-sync/post-dubbed dialogue. Travelogues; Childhood games; Immigants; Race; Segregation; Integration; Deep South; 1950s Americana. Penpals / Pen Friends;