The Great White Silence (1924)

Review: The Great White Silence (1924)

Director: Herbert Ponting

Plot: Herbert Ponting travelled to Antarctica as part of Captain Scott's ill-fated South pole expedition and shot the footage that makes up this extraordinary documentary.

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Documentary and the evolution of movies

Documentary and the evolution of movies

The documentary impulse was integral to the evolution of film and a key element was the application of the new technology to the 19th Century impulse to explore and “conquer” far-off exotic places and […]

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Recent Viewing 2

Recent Viewing 2

Continuing my partial round-up of recently watched movies … The Innkeepers (Ti West, 2011) Ti West is a filmmaker whose work I really want to like, but each film comes as a letdown – except for his second feature, Trigger Man (2007), a […]

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