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The White Seal (1975)
The White Sea;'s Good for Young and for Old
Yes Kingsnake, this is the movie that quote's from (and I'm from Florida too)! I recently picked it up on DVD as I was buying Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (another one I love). The white Seal had faded from my memory since the last time I'd viewed it as a child, but just seeing the title, I remembered one thing very clearly: the humans in the coats of dead seals go out killing more seals. This scene had scared the bejesus out of me when I was little. It's not really bloody at all, in fact, you don't see them actually do anything at all to the seals...but the way they round them up and chase them with those clanking things, and the looks on the seals' faces...and then the white seal shouting at them. The way the firelight was playing off of him, and with all the shadows, it was truly frightening to me at the time. Still, I liked it then, and upon re-watching it last night, I like it now. Some might call it a tad too scary for young kids, and it just might be for some, but on the whole, there's nothing wrong with them seeing this - sometimes it's good to show them the dangerous side of humans, in a rather Bambi-esquire way. I give it 9 stars just because it's too short though...I could've watched this for at least a whole hour, but alas, it was all done within 30 minutes. It's nice that the DVD has "A cricket in Times Square" to go with it, but it would've been even nicer if there was a DVD with this, plus Rikki-Tikki, plus the cricket, PLUS that other cartoon that's on the Rikki-Tikki DVD.