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Beluga Days (1968)

Beluga Days (1968)

Documentary
Release Date: 1968, January 1
Directors: Michel Brault, Bernard Gosselin, Pierre Perrault
Countries: Canada
Production: ONF | NFB
Cast: Léopold Tremblay, Alexis Tremblay, Louis Harvey

Overview:

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.

Keywords:

quebec beluga whale