The Great White Silence

The Great White Silence is a 1924 English documentary that contains brief cinematograph sequences taken during the Terra Nova Expedition of 19101913. The principal filmmaker was photographer Herbert Ponting. Originally a silent film, the documentary was restored and rereleased in 2011 by the British Film Institute with a musical soundtrack by Simon Fisher Turner.

Safely landed on the icy coastline of Ross Island, the filmmaker follows the men as they set up tents, practice skiing, and prepare to probe southward toward the Pole. 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 expeditions tragic conclusion. Scott and his immediate support group of four companions never returned from the Pole.Filmmaker Herbert Ponting was the first known photographer to bring a cinematograph to the Antarctic continent and to take brief film sequences of the continents killer whales, Adlie penguins, south polar skuas, Weddell seals and other fauna, as well as the human explorers who were trying to conquer it. ........

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