The Great White Silence

Synopsis

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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Key crew

• Herbert G. PontingDirector

Cast

• Robert Falcon ScottSelf
• Herbert G. PontingSelf
• Henry R. BowersSelf
• Edgar EvansSelf
• Lawrence E.G. OatesSelf
• Edward Adrian WilsonSelf
• George P. AbbottSelf
• Edward Leicester AtkinsonSelf
• Alfred B. CheethamSelf
• Apsley Cherry-GarrardSelf
• Tom CreanSelf
• Frank DebenhamSelf

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