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.)
Production
Gaumont-British Picture Corporation
Cast & Characters
Robert Falcon Scott
Self
Herbert G. Ponting
Self
Henry R. Bowers
Self
Edgar Evans
Self
Lawrence E.G. Oates
Self
Edward Adrian Wilson
Self
George P. Abbott
Self
Edward Leicester Atkinson
Self
Alfred B. Cheetham
Self
Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Self
Tom Crean
Self
Frank Debenham
Self
Directors & Crew
Herbert G. Ponting
Director
Screenshots & Stills
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