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Killer whale (Old Tom) and whalers - original

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Still from early documentary film, first shown publicly in 1912.

In the foreground is a killer whale (Orcinus orca) named Old Tom, swimming alongside a whaling boat that is being towed by a harpooned whale (out of frame to the right). A whale calf can be seen between Old Tom and the boat. The whalers were based in Eden, New South Wales, Australia.

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1912
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[3]. The NLA id bar has been cropped off the uploaded file. This is a still from an early documentary film, produced in 1910 and first shown to the public in Sydney in 1912.[4]
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