Captain Scott and Dr. Wilson with the Pony 'Nobby' (1912) | BFI National Archive . Subscribe: [ Ссылка ]
Outside the huts of the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-12 stand the smiling figures of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and Dr Edward Wilson. Wilson is holding 'Nobby', one of the Siberian ponies accompanying the Expedition to serve as pack animals for the assault on the South Pole. What makes this Gaumont Graphic newsreel all the more poignant is that by the time the British public got to see it Scott and four of his companions, including Wilson, were probably already dead, their dreams of victory dashed by the Norwegian Roald Amundsen.
The BFI National Archive's major new restoration of Herbert Ponting's The Great White Silence (1924) is available to order now on Dual Format Edition (DVD + Blu-ray):
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