The Great White Silence / 90 Degrees South

The Great White Silence / 90 Degrees South (Blu-Ray) (*)

$34.99

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Silent ( Dolby Linear PCM )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( Blu-Ray/Region A/B/C )

Running Time:
108 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Documentary
Featurette
Interactive Menu
Special Edition
Black & White
Booklet
Remastered
Blu-Ray & DVD Combo

Movie filmed in 1924 - 1930 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Herbert G. Ponting

Written By:
Herbert G. Ponting

Actors:
Robert Falcon Scott ..... Himself
Herbert G. Ponting ..... Himself

Synopsis:

Herbert Pont's official record of Captain Scott's legendary expedition to the South Pole, restored by the BFI and featuring a new musical score by Simon Fisher Turner, captures in breathtaking detail the alien beauty of the landscape, and ensured that the heroism involved would never be forgotten. The BFI National Archive custodian of the expedition negatives created this award-winning restoration using the latest photochemical and digital techniques and reintroduced its sophisticated use of colour.
Special Features:
Presented in both High Definition and Standard Definition
90° South (1933, 72 mins): Pointing's final sound version of his legendary expedition footage
Great White Silence: How Did They Do It? (2011,20 mins): new documentary about the restoration
The Sound of Silence (2011, 13 mins): new documentary about Simon Fisher Turner's approach to the score
Location field recordings (2010, 4 mins): celebrated sound recordist Chris Watson's document of Scott's expedition hut
Archive newsreel items (1910-1925, 5 mins, DVD only): actuality coverage of the expedition's departure and return
Illustrated booklet with essays, film notes and credits

The Great White Silence (1924)
The Terra Nova Expedition was an effort by the British Empire, to plant the British flag on the South Pole by means of men, ponies, dogs, and primitive snowmobiles hauling sledges. They left from a base located on the Antarctic coastline. The documentary portrays the expedition leader, Robert Falcon Scott, and his men as they leave New Zealand, to sail into the Southern Ocean and its ice floes. They safely landed on the icy coastline of Ross Island. The filmmaker follows the men as they set up tents, practice skiing, and prepare to travel southward toward the Pole. The film ends with the explorers pushing off from their base, and title cards remind viewers of what would be the story of the expedition's tragic conclusion. Scott and his four companions never returned from the Pole.
90° South (1933)
This is a documentary of Captain R.F. Scott's second Antarctic expedition, begun in 1910. The British, under Scott, attempted to reach the South Pole before Roald Amundsen's Norwegians. Scott's writings reveal that the British made it to the South Pole, only to find that the Norwegians had gotten there first. Scott, and the other four men who had made it to the Pole with him, died on the return trip.

The Great White Silence (1924)
In 1910 the British Antarctic Expedition, led by Capt. Robert F. Scott, embarks from Lyttleton, NZ on a quest to become the first to reach the South Pole.
90° South (1933)
A record of Captain Scott's 1911 South Pole expedition

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 10 December, 2015.