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...sometimes so thick that it has to be dynamited. When a radio report reveals a seal herd 20 miles away, the swilers debark and scramble over 20 miles of broken ice to find them. The hunt itself ?the men deploying to stalk the seals, killing them with shotguns???is ably but too briefly photographed. Tragic is the situation of one squeaking white baby seal, stuck to a lump of ice; when his mother pauses to nose him off, both are shot. After the hunt, the sealers haul their "sculps" (seal skins) back across the ice. The jinker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Again Arbuckle? | 6/29/1931 | See Source »

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