01:30:00People and fabulation · SHOT EVIDENCE
Gathering around the captured beluga
How does the result of shared labour become the material basis of collective enunciation?
Film and viewing version
Pour la suite du monde · Pour la suite du monde · Pierre Perrault & Michel Brault / 皮埃尔·佩罗、米歇尔·布罗 · 1963
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Passage and still timecodes
approx. 01:29:30—01:30:30
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Visible facts
- 01
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.
Audible facts
- 01
The dialogue expresses joy after the capture and mentions God; no formal prayer is identifiable in this window.
Action relation
Collective labour produces a group-visible result in capture and transport.
Temporal relation
A long-interrupted practice enters communal memory through a present result.
Conceptual reading
This segment first establishes a shared result; the later explicit delegation establishes plural speaking authority.
Concepts used in the judgement
- Fabulationfabulation · ADJACENT
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.
→ - Speech act and a people to comeacte de parole / peuple à venir · SCENE SUPPORT
The shared result joins earlier speech, financing, and labour.
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Primary and scholarly coordinates
- 01Cinema 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.
Terminological coordinates
- fabulationfabulation
Story reorganizes reality and collectivity within the filming process.
→ - speech actacte de parole
Speaker, addressee, path of circulation, and consequences enter the image together.
→ - a people to come / the people are missingpeuple à venir / le peuple manque
Response, delegation, and shared practice produce collective utterances and prefigure a people not yet formed.
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Chapter relations
Viewing and still sources
Film gateway · Official NFB full film; the 01:30:00 image and dialogue are verified.