Item V1989:58/001.01 - Whaling : British Columbia's least known and most romantic industry

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Whaling : British Columbia's least known and most romantic industry

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Kean's Canada Films

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V1989:58/001.01

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  • [1916-1917] (Creation)
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    [1925?] (revision date)

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1 videocassette (00:16:45) : video master, b&w, U-matic, silent with inter-titles ; 19 mm

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Documentary. Filmed on the open Pacific and at Kyuquot and Rose Harbour whaling stations, this is the earliest known motion picture devoted to commercial whaling on the B.C. coast. It shows the pursuit, harpooning, and death struggle of a finback whale. The whale is towed back to the whaling station, where the work of flensing the carcass, refining the blubber, and preparing whalebone (baleen) are shown. Also depicts the various species hunted, including the sulphur-bottom (blue), finback (fin), sei, humpback, and sperm whale.

Includes the whaling ships Black and Green.

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Moving Image & Sound Archives, National Archives of Canada.

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A VHS reference copy is available for this item, V1989:58/001.02.
Extra VHS copies: V1985:17/001 (VHS), V1985:17/002 (U-Matic), V1985:17/004 (Betacam SP).

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Copyright expired. Credit Ernest Belton Collection, NAC.

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Shot lists in files V1985:17 and V1989:58.

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This item may represent a version re-edited in 1925 by A.R. Baker. This copy was made from an item in the Ernest Belton Collection at the National Archives of Canada.

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References: Listed in Browne, "Motion Picture Production in B.C.", entry #A59.

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Accession number(s): V1985:17; V1989:58

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Previously described as AAAA3106.

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photography: A.D. Kean; sponsored/presented by: Government of British Columbia; director: A.D. Kean; producing agency/company: Kean's Canada Films

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