In Search of the Bowhead Whale

Name: In Search of the Bowhead Whale
Director: Bill Mason
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1974-05-01
Duration: 49 min
Rating: 9
Cast: Bill Mason, Scott McVay, Jim Quakenbush

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In Search of the Bowhead Whale

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ONF | NFB

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1974-05-01

In Search of the Bowhead Whale

This adventure film features Scott McVay, an authority on whales, and filmmaker Bill Mason. The objective was to film the bowhead, a magnificent inhabitant of the cold Arctic seas brought to the edge of extinction by overfishing. With helicopter and Inuit guide, aqualungs and underwater cameras, the expedition searches out and meets the bowhead and beluga.

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