- Title card: [Opening remarks] In these long-gone days of their glory, thousands of vessels and tens of thousands of men followed the whale through seas till then unknown.
- Title card: It was seven months since that stout ship The Three Brothers of New Bedford, had left her home port.
- Title card: From the last whale killed they took ten tons of skin - the blubber. While some made mince meat of it... Others boiled the blubber down - to a hundred barrels of precious oil.
- Title card: Of all the wild crews, the whale ship crews were the wildest. Their chanties of joy would curdle the blood of an ordinary seaman.
- Title card: "They call me Hanging Johnny, Hooray Hooray! Because I hang so many, Hooray Hooray!"
- Title card: "I hung my dear old mother, and I hung my baby brother, So Hang, Boys, HANG!"
- Title card: "I hung my sister Sally and I Swung her in the galley, So Hang, Boys, HANG!"
- Title card: "I hung my uncle Paddy, and I hung my old Grandaddy, So HANG, Boys, HANG!"
- Title card: The harpooners were the knighthood of the whalers and they wore harpoon sticks in their caps to boast of it.
- Title card: [the captain of The Three Brothers is shown conducting religious service on the deck of the ship] The Captain was a pious man... on Sundays... for an hour.
- Title card: For weeks Ahab and anguish lay stretched together in a jolting bunk in the filthy fo'c'sle; and his torn body and gashed soul bled into one another.
- Title card: So all the hideous things the sailors said and sung about women were true. They were fickle, false and treacherous. Even the little white Esther had played him false.
- Title card: Ahab kept his crew forging harpoons that welded like glue from murderer's bones; though whalers said the harpoon was never made that could kill Moby Dick.
- Captain Ahab Ceeley: [addressing Queequeg] You old cannibal! Tonight you can fill your black belly with the white whale's blood.
- Title card: The sea had taken from Ahab his youth, his grace, his love, and given him only revenge. Still strong but old with sorrow... his soul turned back to New Bedford and its sweet memories.