Fabulation

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Official NFB English-version stream; anchor 00:10:00 verified. The displayed window locates that anchor; narrative boundaries await shot-level review.

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Three island men confer above the river; one handles a wooden post or tool. The hunt concerns the beluga, locally called marsouin blanc.

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French location dialogue discusses preparations still to be made; the official player supplies English subtitles.

Relation to the concept

Candidate beginning of fabulation: deliberation speaks an interrupted practice into a present plan. Without subsequent reenactment, shared labour, and a changed filming relation, this scene establishes only preparatory conversation.

Sources and further reading

• Cinema 2: The Time-Image

  Minnesota 1989 translation: ch. 6, pp. 150–153; ch. 8, pp. 221–224 · Perrault: the white whale and fabulation in chapter 6; storytelling speech-act, fishing action, memory, and a people to come in chapter 8.

• Bilibili · 牛仔C麦 · user-provided public repost page

  00:10:00 · Preparations for the beluga hunt begin with a riverside discussion.

• Pour la suite du monde — English version

  Official free NFB stream in French with English subtitles. Download-to-own covers personal use worldwide or classroom use in Canada; it excludes public screenings and non-educational institutional use. An institutional licence covers institutional settings and free public screenings.

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00:15:00

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Official NFB English-version stream; anchor 00:15:00 verified. The displayed window locates that anchor; narrative boundaries await shot-level review.

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Older islanders converse face-to-face beside a building in winter.

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The dialogue specifies that the work must take place at low tide.

Relation to the concept

Oral tidal knowledge enters the fabulation chain only when later judgement, post-setting, and collective labour take it up. If it merely supplies information about an old technique, the fabulation label should be withdrawn.

Sources and further reading

• Cinema 2: The Time-Image

  Minnesota 1989 translation: ch. 6, pp. 150–153; ch. 8, pp. 221–224 · Perrault: the white whale and fabulation in chapter 6; storytelling speech-act, fishing action, memory, and a people to come in chapter 8.

• Bilibili · 牛仔C麦 · user-provided public repost page

  00:15:00 · The elders restate the rule that the work must follow low tide.

• Pour la suite du monde — English version

  Official NFB full film; this window was checked against the official player.

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00:20:00

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approx. 00:19:30—00:20:30

Official NFB English-version stream; anchor 00:20:00 verified. The displayed window locates that anchor; narrative boundaries await shot-level review.

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A man explains the project to two others outside a wooden building.

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The exchange frames the task as informing residents and drawing them into a collective intention.

Relation to the concept

The public announcement is a fabulation candidate because it tries to turn listeners into participants. Only later recruitment, division of labour, and altered positions within the filming process can show that it is more than one-way mobilization.

Sources and further reading

• Cinema 2: The Time-Image

  Minnesota 1989 translation: ch. 6, pp. 150–153; ch. 8, pp. 221–224 · Perrault: the white whale and fabulation in chapter 6; storytelling speech-act, fishing action, memory, and a people to come in chapter 8.

• Bilibili · 牛仔C麦 · user-provided public repost page

  00:20:00 · The shared project reaches islanders through face-to-face explanation.

• Pour la suite du monde — English version

  Official NFB full film; the 00:20:00 anchor is verified and the displayed window locates it.

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00:25:00

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approx. 00:24:30—00:25:30

Official NFB English-version stream; anchor 00:25:00 verified. The displayed window locates that anchor; narrative boundaries await shot-level review.

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A seated man speaks during an indoor meeting; the frame concentrates on his profile and expression.

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The discussion calculates a purchase in units priced at 500 dollars.

Relation to the concept

A budget is an adjacent material condition of fabulation, not fabulation itself. It enters the larger genesis only when it continues collective narration and changes who can participate in the reenactment.

Sources and further reading

• Cinema 2: The Time-Image

  Minnesota 1989 translation: ch. 6, pp. 150–153; ch. 8, pp. 221–224 · Perrault: the white whale and fabulation in chapter 6; storytelling speech-act, fishing action, memory, and a people to come in chapter 8.

• Bilibili · 牛仔C麦 · user-provided public repost page

  00:25:00 · The meeting translates the hunt into financing and equipment.

• Pour la suite du monde — English version

  Official NFB full film; the viewing link establishes image access, while textual locators are listed separately.

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00:30:00

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Official NFB English-version stream; anchor 00:30:00 verified. The displayed window locates that anchor; narrative boundaries await shot-level review.

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Men cluster on a working boat while the river continues moving behind them.

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Conversation invokes earlier times and attributes the practice’s invention to Indigenous inhabitants before the settlers.

Relation to the concept

The origin story remains conjectural and plural, making it a fabulation candidate. If the film merely preserves it as unchanged testimony without co-transforming speaker, practice, and filmmaker, the candidate relation fails.

Sources and further reading

• Cinema 2: The Time-Image

  Minnesota 1989 translation: ch. 6, pp. 150–153; ch. 8, pp. 221–224 · Perrault: the white whale and fabulation in chapter 6; storytelling speech-act, fishing action, memory, and a people to come in chapter 8.

• Bilibili · 牛仔C麦 · user-provided public repost page

  00:30:00 · The river journey unfolds alongside a story about the hunt's origin.

• Pour la suite du monde — English version

  Official NFB full film; the atlas paraphrases rather than reproducing extended subtitles.

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00:35:00

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approx. 00:34:30—00:35:30

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An older man speaks indoors and gestures toward his chest while others listen.

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He explains that the hunters must be more cunning than the whale.

Relation to the concept

The elder's instruction hands an old capacity to present listeners and therefore forms a fabulation candidate. It exceeds one-way transmission of tradition only when later bodily practice and filming act back upon the hunter identity.

Sources and further reading

• Cinema 2: The Time-Image

  Minnesota 1989 translation: ch. 6, pp. 150–153; ch. 8, pp. 221–224 · Perrault: the white whale and fabulation in chapter 6; storytelling speech-act, fishing action, memory, and a people to come in chapter 8.

• Bilibili · 牛仔C麦 · user-provided public repost page

  00:35:00 · An elder explains how a hunter must outwit the whale.

• Pour la suite du monde — English version

  Official NFB full film; the 00:35:00 anchor is verified.

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00:43:56

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approx. 00:43:35—00:44:13

Official NFB English-version stream; anchor 00:44:02 verified. The displayed window locates that anchor; narrative boundaries await shot-level review.

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Several islanders stand knee-deep in the tide among rows of set posts, steadying and adjusting an upright post; the sequence turns to the water, post rows, and close views of hands.

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The dialogue discusses spacing posts about one pace (roughly three feet) apart, how water entering the boat impedes the work, and earlier labour in the water wearing leather boots.

Relation to the concept

Setting posts is first of all effective labour and remains adjacent to fabulation as the action-end of earlier narration and reenactment. Detached from the chain running from oral account and deliberation to construction, the scene cannot establish fabulation on its own.

Sources and further reading

• Cinema 2: The Time-Image

  Minnesota 1989 translation: ch. 6, pp. 150–153; ch. 8, pp. 221–224 · Perrault: the white whale and fabulation in chapter 6; storytelling speech-act, fishing action, memory, and a people to come in chapter 8.

• Bilibili · 牛仔C麦 · user-provided public repost page

  00:43:56 · Deliberation, roles, and materials become shared construction in the water.

• Pour la suite du monde — English version

  Official NFB full film; the 00:44:02 visual anchor and scene dialogue are verified.

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01:10:00

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approx. 01:09:30—01:10:30

Official NFB English-version stream; anchor 01:10:00 verified. The displayed window locates that anchor; narrative boundaries await shot-level review.

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Two men converse beside a furnace fire in a workshop.

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The exchange asks where Indigenous people obtained the idea for the posts.

Relation to the concept

The unresolved dispute keeps the origin story open and can serve as a fabulation candidate. If disagreement leaves only unverifiable information without changing the ongoing practice or positions of speech, the relation should be withdrawn.

Sources and further reading

• Cinema 2: The Time-Image

  Minnesota 1989 translation: ch. 6, pp. 150–153; ch. 8, pp. 221–224 · Perrault: the white whale and fabulation in chapter 6; storytelling speech-act, fishing action, memory, and a people to come in chapter 8.

• Bilibili · 牛仔C麦 · user-provided public repost page

  01:10:00 · The origin of the post structure remains unsettled in a workshop exchange.

• Pour la suite du monde — English version

  Official NFB full film; the record separates speech within the film from historical verification.

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01:30:00

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approx. 01:29:30—01:30:30

Official NFB English-version stream; anchor 01:30:00 verified. The displayed window locates that anchor; narrative boundaries await shot-level review.

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Islanders gather around the captured beluga as it is prepared for transport; the sequence cuts to a speaker beside a vehicle and to the assembled group again.

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The dialogue expresses joy after the capture and mentions God; no formal prayer is identifiable in this window.

Relation to the concept

The captured result is an adjacent consequence of the fabulation chain. A shared achievement does not itself prove the double becoming of characters and filmmakers; it must be reconnected to prior narration and followed into later changes of representation.

Sources and further reading

• Cinema 2: The Time-Image

  Minnesota 1989 translation: ch. 6, pp. 150–153; ch. 8, pp. 221–224 · Perrault: the white whale and fabulation in chapter 6; storytelling speech-act, fishing action, memory, and a people to come in chapter 8.

• Bilibili · 牛仔C麦 · user-provided public repost page

  01:30:00 · Islanders gather around the result of the hunt as collective labour gains a visible consequence.

• Pour la suite du monde — English version

  Official NFB full film; the 01:30:00 image and dialogue are verified.

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01:40:00

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approx. 01:39:30—01:40:30

Official NFB English-version stream; anchor 01:40:00 verified. The displayed window locates that anchor; narrative boundaries await shot-level review.

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Three men converse in an outdoor area of the aquarium; one occupies the position between the other two.

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The exchange explicitly delegates one participant to speak for the group.

Relation to the concept

Explicit delegation changes the speaking relation between individual and collective and is therefore a strong fabulation candidate. It must still remain connected to the film's shared reenactment and filming intervention rather than being proven conclusively by the phrase 'speak for us' alone.

Sources and further reading

• Cinema 2: The Time-Image

  Minnesota 1989 translation: ch. 6, pp. 150–153; ch. 8, pp. 221–224 · Perrault: the white whale and fabulation in chapter 6; storytelling speech-act, fishing action, memory, and a people to come in chapter 8.

• Bilibili · 牛仔C麦 · user-provided public repost page

  01:40:00 · The group delegates one member to speak for them inside an institutional setting.

• Pour la suite du monde — English version

  Official NFB full film; the 01:40:00 anchor is verified and the displayed window locates it.

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01:30:00

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01:29:40–01:31:00

The verbal challenge between Corisco and Manuel was frame-checked.

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Corisco's coin-hung hat, facial streaks, and frontal close-up bind costume, body, and mythical identity.

Manuel enters only from the lower edge, so their positions are not stabilized by balanced shot/reverse-shot.

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Corisco challenges Manuel in loud, rhythmic speech closer to public performance than private conversation.

Relation to the concept

Figures change allegiance among peasant, believer, bandit, and myth; the collective is not pre-completed, and Corisco's performative speech turns that absence into a condition of creation.

Sources and further reading

• Bilibili · Black God, White Devil complete film

  01:30:00 · Complete Bilibili carrier; the shot at 单片 01:30:00 was checked frame by frame, and the still and timestamp come from the same public upload.

• Cinema 2: The Time-Image

  Cinema 2, chapter 8, pp. 222–223.