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The Great White Silence (DVD + Blu-ray)
Director: Herbert Ponting

Herbert Ponting’s official record of Captains Scott’s legendary expedition to the South Pole, restored by the BFI and featuring a score by Simon Fisher Turner, captures in breath-taking detail the alien beauty of the landscape, and ensured that the heroism involved would never be forgotten.
The BFI National Archive – custodian of the expedition negatives – created this award-winning restoration using the latest photochemical and digital techniques and reintroduced its sophisticated use of colour.

Extras

• Presented in High Definition and Standard Definition
• 90° South (1933, 72 mins): Ponting’s final sound version of his legendary expedition footage
• The Sound of Silence (2011, 13 mins): documentary about Simon Fisher Turner’s approach to the score
• Location filed recordings (2010, 4 mins): celebrated sound recordist Chris Watson’s document of Scott’s expedition hut
• Archive newsreel items (1910-1925, 5 mins, DVD only): actuality coverage of the expedition’s departure and return
• **FIRST PRESSING ONLY** Fully illustrated booklet featuring a lead essay by the BFI’s Bryony Dixon, selected biographies and notes on the extras

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