Beluga Days (movie)
Le beau plaisir- User score: 6
- Production country: Canada
- Producer: Bernard Gosselin , Pierre Perrault , Michel Brault
- Production companies: ONF | NFB
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 1/1/1968
- Run time: 15 min.
Movie description
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.
