The Great White Silence (1924)

19241h 48mdir. Herbert PontingUnited Kingdomdocumentary film

With Robert Falcon Scott, Herbert Ponting

Directed by Herbert Ponting

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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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