Herbert Ponting was the photographic officer on Captain Scott's last South Pole expedition, 1910-1913. He wrote of his experiences in The Great White South; or, with Scott in the Antarctic (1921) and in 1914 received a royal command to present a film lecture on his experiences at Buckingham Palace. More than a thousand other lectures followed, including one at the Philharmonic Hall in 1915. His footage was first released in 1911 and again in 1912 as With Captain Scott, RN, to the South Pole; it was also released in 1924 in feature-length form as The Great White Silence; and it was re-edited in 1933 as 90° South and again, in 1936, as The Story of Captain Scott. Anthony Slide, Encyclopedia of British Film
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