Cinerama’s Russian Adventure. Various directors, 1966.
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Edition screened: Flicker Alley Blu-ray, released 2016. English language. Runtime approximately 127 minutes.
Summary: Romanticized torturing, killing, and harassing of wild animals.
Details:
1) An explicit whaling sequence, 36:46-41:19, including harpooning, dragging the animal on board, and graphic butchering.
2) A bear encounters a sleigh carrying flimsy crates of chickens, 1:35:50-1:37:35. We don’t see any actual killing.
3) Wolves harass a penned moose, 1:37:50-1:38:37. It comes to nothing.
4) After a long chase, hunters and dogs “capture a wild boar alive” (1:42:02-1:43:45), which means it is dragged to the ground and hog tied.
5) Cowboys on motorcycles drive wild antelope into nets, 1:45:30-1:48:18, because “man must step in to solve the problem of nature’s making” according to narrator Bing Crosby.
The Flicker Alley Blu-ray also includes two shorts filmed with Cinerama technology, both more interesting than the feature presentation:
Frontier of Peace (1964)
Concorde (1966)