Film Record: Thar She Blows

Identifier:

• AAAA2866 (Source: http://search-bcarchives.royalbcmuseum.bc.ca/thar-she-blows)

Date produced: 1952

Country of Production:

Canada

Languages:

English

Duration:

00:41:40

Length:

1185 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 in Quatsino Sound. The whaling vessel Polar V leaves on a voyage. Preparation of equipment, including harpoons and harpoon gun. A whale is sighted, pursued and harpooned; it struggles, dies, and is flagged. The onboard scenes continue, showing more harpoon preparation, hunting and killing of whales. Whale is towed to Coal Harbour, where the flensing, butchering and processing of the carcass is shown. The Polar V sets out again; in very rough seas, another whale is pursued and killed. " (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 #T/08.

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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