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The Great White Silence (1924)

The Great White Silence (1924)

Documentary
Release Date: 1924, May 1
Directors: Herbert G. Ponting
Countries: Antarctica, United Kingdom
Production: Gaumont-British Picture Corporation
Cast: Robert Falcon Scott, Edward Leicester Atkinson, Alfred B. Cheetham, Tom Crean, Frank Debenham, Edgar Evans, Tryggve Gran, Patrick Keohane, William Lashly, Cecil H. Meares, Edward W. Nelson, Thomas Griffith Taylor

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.)

Keywords:

antarctica south pole