90° South

Robert Falcon Scott went to Antarctica in 1910. What he wanted was to reach the South Pole first. Roald Amundsen’s Norwegian party was against him. Scott’s team did reach the Pole. When they got there they found the Norwegians had arrived before them. The return journey ended in disaster. Scott and the four men with him died. Herbert Ponting was the expedition’s photographer. Ponting brought back the footage he shot there. It was first shown in 1911 and 1912. Twenty years later the film was cut together again. This time it came out with sound. Ponting himself provided the narration. Teddy Evans, Scott’s second in command, introduces the film. Passages from Scott’s diary are read out in it. The seventy two minute film is a British production Herbert Ponting finished in 1933.