A Great White Silence

Tuesday 7th February 2012, 7:30pm

(Running Time:103 Minutes)

Directed by Herbert Ponting

 UK (silent film from 1924)

Certificate: U

Venue: Bishopgarth

The official record of Captain Scott's legendary expedition to the South Pole restored by the BFI.  A hundred years ago the British Antarctic Expedition led by Captain Scott set out on its ill-fated race to the South Pole. The BFI National Archive - custodian of the expedition negatives - has restored the film using the latest photochemical and digital techniques and reintroduced the film's sophisticated use of colour. The alien beauty of the landscape is brought dramatically to life and shows the world of the expedition in brilliant detail. A happy scene of Scott and his team in a tent demonstrating how they would cook and sleep on their race to the Pole - the same tent that would be their tomb - is particularly poignant.  

 

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