The Great White Silence

The Great White Silence

7.8IMDb Score
Released:1924-05-01
Duration:108 min
Director:Herbert G. Ponting
Actors:Robert Falcon Scott, Herbert G. Ponting, Henry R. Bowers, Edgar Evans, Lawrence E.G. Oates
Production:Gaumont-British Picture Corporation

Overview:

Herbert Ponting travelled to Antarctica with Captain Scott’s ill-fated South Pole expedition and filmed the stunning images that make up this extraordinary documentary. (Originally released in 1912 as With Captain Scott in the Antarctic, the material was re-edited and re-issued by Ponting in 1924 as The Great White Silence.)

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