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Feature film — 1974

In Search of the Bowhead Whale (1974)

9.00h 49mDocumentary

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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Director: Bill Mason

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Cast & crew

Bill Mason as Self

Bill Mason

Self

Scott McVay as Self

Scott McVay

Self

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Jim Quakenbush

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