Film Record: Blow the Wild Whale

Identifier:

• AAAA0291 (Source: http://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/blow-wild-whale)

Date produced: 1954

Country of Production:

Canada

Languages:

English

Duration:

00:32:38

Length:

1174 ft

Format:

16mm

Colour:

Colour

Sound Notes:

Silent

Awards/Recognition:

BC Archives list of titled amateur films.

Description:

"BC Packers (Western Canadian Whaling Ltd.) whaling operations, based at Coal Harbour. Whaling ship departs; whale is sighted and harpooned; whale struggles and dies. Flensing and processing of whale carcass at Coal Harbour -- products are frozen ground whale meat and mink feed. Sequence on preparation of harpoons, followed by another whaling trip aboard the Polar V. Several sequences appear to be in slow motion." (BC Archives)

The Western Canada Whaling Company was a sub-division of British Columbia Packers Limited.

The filmmaker is not identified. Film begins with the credit "British Columbia Packers presents..."

Resources:

Listed in Duffy, Camera West (1986), entry #B/27.

Locations:

• Coal Harbour, BC (Filming)
• Pacific Coast, BC (Filming)
• Quatsino Sound, BC (Filming)

Genre:

• Industrial
• Sponsored

Form:

• Short

Tags:

Repository:

BC Archives, Royal BC Museum

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