8 March 2012

Australian premiere of "The Great White Silence" features heroic animals!

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The British Film Institute’s new restoration of the most renowned of all early polar films: Hebert Ponting’s 1924 version of the story of Robert Falcon Scott’s tragic ‘Dash’ to the South Pole in 1911. Already established as one of England’s leading still photographers, Ponting was the first filmmaking professional and the first photographic artist to accompany a polar expedition. Haunted by Scott’s death, his re-issues and re-edits of this footage, from 1912 until the early 1930s, did much to establish the Edwardian legend and the tragedy of ‘Scott of the Antarctic’. The restoration of The Great White Silence also re-confirms Ponting’s craft as a landscape and natural history cameraman.

Screening @Arc Cinema
National Film and Sound Archive – McCoy Circuit, Acton
Special ticket prices apply
Bookings phone 02 6248 2000 or the NFSA Box Office
Full details nfsa.gov.au/arc

SATURDAY 10 MARCH SUNSET (OUDOORS) –

AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE
MONDAY 12 MARCH 3.30PM
THURSDAY 15 MARCH 2PM

THE GREAT WHITE SILENCE

Dir: Herbert Ponting, 1924, 108 mins @ 18fps, 35mm, (unclassified 15+)
Courtesy of the British Film Institute. Pre-recorded accompaniment, with a new score by Simon Fisher-Turner.

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I know if a film is ‘unclassified’ they put at least 15+ on it, but it seems ridiculous that children can’t see something like this.

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