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Alaska Wilderness Lake

1971 film

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia

Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0

Source revisionAug 8, 2026

Entity authorityQ1425571 ↗

Source-derived summary

Alaska Wilderness Lake is a 1971 American documentary film produced by Alan Landsburg. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It was based on the book Red Salmon, Brown Bear by Theodore J. Walker.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Alaska Wilderness Lake” as 1971 film. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Alaska, Wilderness and Lake.

Editorial reviewA useful identification and reception guide that helps separate the work itself from editions, performances, ownership and later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1971—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1971-01-01. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Alaska, Wilderness and Lake providing the first useful test.

Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Alaska Wilderness Lake”, the useful work is to connect “1971 film” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Attribution, date and provenance are strongest when supported by the original work, a catalogue record and documented transmission. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1425571. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1971.

Critical limits

Titles can refer to several editions, objects or performances, making precise identification essential before interpretation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Separate the work, its editions or performances, and its later reception. Catalogue records, publication histories and object files often preserve different parts of that story.

Best used for

Identifying works and editions
Tracing reception history
Finding collection records

Verify next

The original object or edition, catalogue raisonné, performance record, rights file and holding institution.

Three-step research path

Establish the record: confirm the title “Alaska Wilderness Lake”, its source revision and the description used here.
Expand the search: follow Alaska Wilderness Lake primary sources, Alaska Wilderness Lake archive and Alaska research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Alaska Wilderness Lake”?
Where is authorship, date or provenance documented?
How did later circulation or interpretation alter the work’s reception?

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Alaska Wilderness Lake” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.