Original production:.Original production in French.

Director, Pierre Perrault, Bernard Gosselin, Michel Brault ; producer, Jacques Bobet, Guy L. Coté ; camera, Alain Dostie, Gilles Blais ; sound, Claude Pelletier, Serge Beauchemin, Sidney Pearson ; animation, Clorinda Warny, Co Hoedeman ; music, Aimé Gagnon, Raymond Gagnon, Jean-Baptiste Gagnon.

Recorded 1968.

From the lower St. Lawrence, a picture of whale hunting that looks more like a round-up, with a corral, whale-boys and all. In 1534, when he stopped at the island he named l'Île-aux-Coudres, Jacques Cartier saw how the Indians captured the little white beluga whales by setting a fence of saplings into off-shore mud. In the film, the islanders show that the old method still works, thanks to the trusting "sea-pigs," the same old tide, and a little magic.

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2023-08-10).