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Mush! to the Movies - 90 Degrees South: With Scott to the Antarctic
Co-Presented by Los Angeles Filmforum, this film club features a dazzling selection of films spanning over 90 years of glacial activity.
The series will feature six events with free popcorn offered to all in the Nova Tuskhut, the only Arctic Trading Post on the North American Continent, located on the grounds of the Velaslavasay Panorama. Attendees will be given a unique souvenir Polar Passport and those who attend all six screenings will receive a surprise gift and a chance to win a night's stay in The Nova Tuskhut!
**Free tickets with advance RSVP for current LA Filmforum Members and Members of The Velaslavasay Panorama Enthusiast Society.**
Contact the secretary to RSVP event@panoramaonview.org
First Screening Announced:
90 Degrees South: With Scott to the Antarctic
1933, 70 min. black and white; digital projection. Directed by Herbert Ponting
Courtesy of Milestone Films
Special thanks to Dennis Doros
The screening of this film is sponsored by Forward M.B., Inc., Computational Engineers, Los Angeles, Calif.
A documentary exploring the story of the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, Robert Falcon Scott's voyage with his crew of 60 men to the South Pole in the years 1910-1913, as seen through the lens of Herbert Ponting.
Scott reached the Pole on 17 January 1912, but he and the survivors of his team perished on their return to their base camp, on 29 March. 90 Degrees South is the sound version of a film that had already undergone several iterations under Ponting's direction. Shorter clips were screened in 1913-1914 and utilized in an elaborate lecture on the expedition, presented by Ponting over 1000 times. By the early 1920s, perhaps influenced by the success of Nanook of the North, Ponting edited the footage into a silent feature called The Great White Silence (1924), now considered a classic. A decade later, confronted with the success of sound cinema, Ponting used most of the same footage, adding some photos and new maps, along with his own recorded narration, to make a sound version, 90 Degrees South.
Preceded by:
Roald Amundsen's South Pole Expedition Film, the Cinema Version
1912, 16 min., screening from digital
Cinematography: Lt. Kristian Prestrud
Restored by the Norsk Filminstitutt (Norwegian Film Institute)
Special thanks to Lise Gustavson of the NFI
This screening of this film is sponsored by Sister Mantos
Norwegian Roald Amundsen led the first successful expedition to reach the South Pole, arriving at the Pole on 14 December 1911. Probably influenced by Ernst Shackleton's film from his expedition of 1907-1909, Amundsen included a cinematographic camera on his expedition to Antarctica in 1910-1912, although one of his crewmen served as the primary cinematographer. One version of the footage (roughly 25 minutes), intercut with slides, was used by Amundsen to accompany his lecture tour after his return to Europe. These packed lectures were a primary means for early explorers to raise funds. A shorter stand-alone "cinema version" with intertitles, not needing a lecturer, was also cut to appear in theatres, and this is the version to be screened this evening. Filming was done on the voyage and at the base camp, but Amundsen did no include a moving picture camera on the trek to the South Pole. The arrival at the Pole, as with Ponting's film, was captured only with still images.
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LocationThe Velaslavasay Panorama (View)
1122 West 24th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90007
United States
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