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The Great White Silence (1924) - the official record of Captain Scott's heroic South Pole journey

This contains brief cinematograph sequences taken during the Terra Nova Expedition of 1910–1913. The Terra Nova Expedition was an effort, by governments and concerned citizens of what was then the British Empire, to plant the Union Jack on the South Pole by means of men, ponies, dogs, and primitive snowmobiles hauling sledges from a base located on the Antarctic coastline. The documentary portrays the 1910 British Antarctic Expedition, led by expedition leader Capt. Robert F. Scott, as his four men and his his ship, the Terra Nova, embark from Lyttleton, New Zealand, to sail into the Southern Ocean and its ice floes on a quest to become the first to reach the South Pole. They safely landed at the Antarctic shelf on the icy coastline of Ross Island, some three months later. The filmmaker follows the men as the shore party sets up tents, practices skiing, and prepares to probe southward toward the Pole. Ponting not only shows many sites along the way - sea life, their ship cutting through the ice pack - but also manages to explain some of his techniques by showing how he obtained a particular shot. The climate is harsh and the trek to the Pole is arduous. Disappointment lies in store for Scott and his men when they arrive at the Pole and the arduous return proves deadly. The film concludes with a sequence of the explorers pushing off from their base, and title cards reminding viewers of what, to the 1924 viewer, would have been the familiar story of the expedition's tragic conclusion. Scott and his immediate support group of four companions never returned from the Pole. A 1924 English Black & White silent documentary film produced, directed & photographed by Herbert Ponting, starring Captain Robert Falcon Scott, Henry R. Bowers, Edgar Evans, Lawrence E.G. Oates, and Edward Adrian Wilson. Produced by Gaumont British Picture Corporation. Filmmaker Herbert Ponting was the first known photographer to bring a cinematograph to the Antarctic continent and to take brief film sequences of the continent's killer whales, Adélie penguins, south polar skuas, Weddell seals and other fauna, as well as the human explorers who were trying to "conquer" it. Although the expedition came more than 20 years after the invention of photographic film, Ponting preferred high-quality images taken on glass plates. With these plates, Ponting could capture images of Antarctic icescapes and landscapes Captain Scott did not choose cinematographer Ponting to accompany him to the South Pole. Ponting remained on base and survived with his film sequences, eventually returning to England. Captain Robert Falcon Scott (1868 – 1912) was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery expedition of 1901–04 and the Terra Nova expedition of 1910–13. On the first expedition, he set a new southern record by marching to latitude 82°S and discovered the Antarctic Plateau, on which the South Pole is located. On the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, less than five weeks after Amundsen's South Pole expedition. A planned meeting with supporting dog teams from the base camp failed, despite Scott's written instructions, and at a distance of 162 miles (261 km) from their base camp at Hut Point and approximately 12.5 miles (20.1 km) from the next depot, Scott and his companions died. When Scott and his party's bodies were discovered, they had in their possession the first Antarctic fossils discovered. The fossils were determined to be from the Glossopteris tree and proved that Antarctica was once forested and joined to other continents. Before his appointment to lead the Discovery expedition, Scott had a career as a Royal Navy officer. In 1899, he had a chance encounter with Sir Clements Markham, the president of the Royal Geographical Society, and learned of a planned Antarctic expedition, which he soon volunteered to lead.[3] His name became inseparably associated with the Antarctic, the field of work to which he remained committed during the final 12 years of his life. Following the news of his death, Scott became a celebrated hero, a status reflected by memorials erected across the UK. This film, and a successor film with a soundtrack based upon some of the same film sequences, "90° South" (1933), were not great commercial successes, and Ponting, the director, died impoverished. However, his work was eventually acclaimed as one of the highest-quality group of images surviving from the so-called Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Included among the "1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die", edited by Steven Schneider. An impressive documentary and a riveting document with beautiful still photographs, and Ponting's deeply moving slow build of trials, disasters and deaths. Ponting’s superb and startlingly powerful storytelling, especially of an event he was unable to photograph, is unexpectedly impressive, respectful and affecting.