- The picture opens with views of all the interesting incidents of a modern whale hunt. The spouting whale is sighted, sometimes at a distance of five miles, and the trim steamer, with harpoon gun loaded and ready on the bow, quietly approaches its prey. Once within range, the gun is fired. The harpoon with its deadly charge of dynamite pierces the great beast and explodes, and, if the aim had been true, there is little else left to do except to haul in on the heavy rope, lash the whale securely to the side of the ship, and tow him back to port. Once in the port of Durban, the whale is removed from the water as quickly as possible on account of the voracity of the sharks which infest these waters. Some splendid pictures of sharks attacking a moored whale are shown. After the exciting whale hunt, we turn to the transportation of the whale to the factory. After being hauled out of the water by steam winches, the body is placed upon three or four flat cars, and a puffing locomotive drags the great sixty-ton beast to the rendering factory. Here the several processes by which the whale oil, spermaceti and whalebone of commerce are produced, are carefully followed. Incidentally we are shown several views which effectually demonstrate the enormous size of these monsters of the deep; a whale's heart, for instance, which weighs four hundred pounds, and a modern Jonah standing in a whale's mouth.—Moving Picture World synopsis
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