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Herbert G. Ponting
Director 1870 - 1935

Herbert G. Ponting

Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK

Herbert George Ponting, FRGS (21 March 1870 – 7 February 1935) was an English professional photographer. He is best known as the expedition photographer and cinematographer for Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition to the Ross Sea and South Pole (1910–1913). In this... Read full bio →

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90° South

90° South

Herbert G. Ponting 1933 1h 12m 8.0

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.

The Great White Silence

The Great White Silence

Herbert G. Ponting 1924 1h 48m 8.2

Herbert Ponting travelled to Antarctica as part of Captain Scott's ill-fated South pole expedition and shot the footage that makes up this extraordinary documentary.

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