Description: Interview with New England Aquarium representative about their efforts to help baby seals and release them back into the wild. A woman tries to feed a baby seal from a bottle. People hold a baby seals outside in front of the Aquarium. A baby seal learns how to crawl. Mix of sound and silent.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/28/1976
Description: Andre the seal coming off the plane. "Welcome Home Andre" sign at the Aquarium. Andre re-enters the seal pool at the aquarium as a crowd watches. Sound. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Andre the Seal Comes Back - To the aquarium to be reunited with pregnant Smoke."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/02/1977
Description: Footage of a seal in a cage, Smoke, being loaded into the New England Aquarium van. The truck drives away. Reporter, Roger Goodrich, closing standup in front of the seal enclosure at the New England Aquarium. Sound. This is reel 2 of 2.
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/22/1978
Description: Footage of Andre the seal being transferred from the plane to the New England Aquarium truck for transfer to the aquarium. Crowd waiting by the Seal enclosure, and Andre being released from the crate into the seal enclosure. Background sound. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Andre Comes home - Here we go again, from Rockport to the Aquarium."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 11/01/1978
Description: Seals, Andre and Spot, swim in the seal enclosure at the New England Aquarium while a crowd watches. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Andre and Spot - Andre the seal has a new companion. [She's] Spot and she swims in the tank with Andre."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 04/05/1979
Description: Andre the seal jumps halfway through a ring and performs in the seal enclosure at the New England Aquarium. The Aquarium truck backs up through a large crowd toward the water. Shots of Andre in the water and children in the crowd watching. Background sound. Additional description from the Original WCVB Rundown for this story reads: "Andre goes North - Yes, friends, it's time for the famous andre to seal to go to Maine/first he gives his final performance, and then on to Marblehead to be dumped into the ocean to head north."
Collection: WCVB Collection
Date Created: 05/02/1979