The Great White Silence (1924)
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.)
- Date of release
- 1924-05-01
- TMDB
- 7.8 / 10 (62)
- Runtime
- 1h 48m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Director
- Herbert G. Ponting
Casting
- 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
Interesting facts
The Great White Silence is a 1924 English documentary that contains brief cinematograph sequences taken during the Terra Nova Expedition of 1910–1913. The principal filmmaker was photographer Herbert Ponting. Originally a silent film, the documentary was restored and re-released in 2011 by the British Film Institute with a musical soundtrack by Simon Fisher Turner.
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