# Did I Imagine This? Animated Movie About Clubbing Harp Seals **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 3, 2011, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-imagine-this-animated-movie-about-clubbing-harp-seals/604960 "2011-12-03T17:44:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-imagine-this-animated-movie-about-clubbing-harp-seals/604960/1 "2011-12-03T17:44:19Z")
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 ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-imagine-this-animated-movie-about-clubbing-harp-seals/604960/2 "2011-12-03T17:57:13Z")
Was it actual animation or a filmstrip? (Filmstrips advanced a frame at a time, manually, with a cue from the associated audio.) ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 6:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-imagine-this-animated-movie-about-clubbing-harp-seals/604960/3 "2011-12-03T18:16:14Z")
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. The White Seal. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-imagine-this-animated-movie-about-clubbing-harp-seals/604960/4 "2011-12-03T18:49:00Z")
[![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8cdUaOa21U&t=6m30s) Just glanced through it, the central message of the story looks like “It’s okay to be different” not a message against killing seals. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-imagine-this-animated-movie-about-clubbing-harp-seals/604960/5 "2011-12-03T18:53:39Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Hello\_Again](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/85e7bf/32.png) [@Hello\_Again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hello_Again)\ **Post date:** [December 3, 2011, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-imagine-this-animated-movie-about-clubbing-harp-seals/604960/6 "2011-12-03T20:37:16Z")
You guys are the best! **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. ---
**Author:** ![cjepson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a9adbd/32.png) [@cjepson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cjepson)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-imagine-this-animated-movie-about-clubbing-harp-seals/604960/7 "2011-12-05T16:55:09Z")
This was an adaptation of a Rudyard Kipling story from _The Second Jungle Book_. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [December 5, 2011, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-i-imagine-this-animated-movie-about-clubbing-harp-seals/604960/8 "2011-12-05T21:31:47Z")
> [@cjepson](#): > > This was an adaptation of a Rudyard Kipling story from _The Second Jungle Book_. 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.