Every year my elementary school had a holiday pot luck. I lived in a very diverse neighbirhood and everyone was encourage to bring holiday specialties from their ethnic traditions (yum). Anyway, because the school was apparently not run by a herd of morons, after an appropriate period for nomming, they would show movies for the kids in the school auditorium so the adults could socialize a bit. Before the main movie I remember this animated short. As I recall the overarching message was “clubbing harp seals to death is bad” (I went to an uber-liberal school!) IIRC baby harp seal was orphaned and wreaked vengence on the hunters by making them believe he was an eeeevvvviiiillll ghost seal.
Ok, in sum, this is a short, shown on filmstrip, circa 1982-1985
I think I know what you’re talking about.
I also seem to remember an animation about seals clubbed: I’m pretty sure it was a Chuck Jones Production, With Roddy McDowall providing voice characterization.
I saw it too. I was mildly curious that, while the seals could “talk” among themselves (conventional enough for animated animals), apparently the orphan seal could yell “Stop!” to the humans and be understood.
Well, that plus why the sight of a white seal would terrify the humans so.
Larry Mudd you’re right, “film strip” was the wrong word. I was trying to convey that it was on film reel using a film projector, in case that was important.
Yes. Jones did several of these when he was head of children’s programming at ABC. There was also an adaptation of Rikki-Tikki-Tavi. They were actually television specials originally, The White Seal in 1974, Rikki-Tikki-Tavi in 1975, and Mowgli’s Brothers in 1976.