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In Search of the Bowhead Whale (1974)

Documentary49m

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Overview

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.

Bill MasonDirector

In Search of the Bowhead Whale (1974)