Beluga Days

APPROPIATE

1968 / 15min.

Rating6

Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

From the lower St. Lawrence, a picture of whale hunting that looks more like a round-up, with a corral, whale-boys and all. In 1534, when he stopped at the island he named l'Île-aux-Coudres, Jacques Cartier saw how the Indians captured the little white beluga whales by setting a fence of saplings into off-shore mud. In the film, the islanders show that the old method still works, thanks to the trusting 'sea-pigs,' the same old tide, and a little magic.

Directors

Actors

Léopold Tremblay

Alexis Tremblay

Louis Harvey

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