Skip to main content
BFI logo

Home

Film

Television

People

History

Education

Tours

Help

  search

Search

Screenonline banner
Gaumont Graphic: Captain Scott and Dr. Wilson with the Pony 'Nobby' (1912)
 

BFI

Main image of Gaumont Graphic: Captain Scott and Dr. Wilson with the Pony 'Nobby' (1912)
 
35mm, 65 ft, black & white, silent
 
Production CompanyGaumont Graphic

Prior to their assault on the South Pole, Dr Edward Wilson and Captain Robert Falcon Scott pose outside the huts of the British Antarctic Expedition with one of the Expedition's Siberian ponies.

Show full synopsis

The Gaumont Company made a specialty of expedition films, and snapped up any opportunity to bring the first pictures from long distances and heroic endeavours. They had negotiated the rights to all footage taken in Antarctica during Scott's British Antarctic Expedition by Herbert Ponting, its official photographer and cinematographer. During the first year of the expedition, Ponting sent back films in the Terra Nova when it left Cape Evans for New Zealand during the Polar winter. The films were sent to London, edited by the company and released as occasional news items reporting on what was going on in Antarctica.

Bryony Dixon

Click titles to see or read more

Video Clips
Complete film (0:23)
GALLERY / SCRIPTS / AUDIO
SEE ALSO
Great White Silence, The (1924)