BELUGA BABY

Directed by Tony Westman · Starring Dorothée Berryman, Stefani Hewlett · 1978

At the Vancouver Aquarium, staff wait with mounting excitement as a beluga whale goes into labour, filming a birth that few people have ever witnessed.

A rare 1970s record of a beluga whale birth that captures both the wonder of new life and its unpredictability.

The birth of a beluga whale is a seldom witnessed event. This is a record of the birth of a whale in the Vancouver Aquarium, the excitement building up to it, the labour, and the sudden and inexplicable death of the baby

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