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Photo captioned "Ponting Cinematographs the Bow of the 'Terra Nova' breaking through the Ice-floes" by Herbert Ponting, Antarctica. Published in Scott's Last Expedition, Sir Robert Falcon Scott, 1913.

  • Excerpt from Herbert Ponting's The Great White South page 41:
    I was anxious to secure a moving-picture film showing the bow of the Terra Nova cleaving the ice-floes; this ambition was now realised, thanks to the help of our worthy Bo'sun and Petty Officer Williamson, who rigged some planks extending ten feet from the starboard side of the fo'c'sle, to the end of which I fixed the kinematograph with its tilting-table. Spread-eagling myself on the end of these planks, I had a field of view clear under the overhanging prow. As the ship bumped into the floes, I hung on as best I could, and with one arm clung tightly to my precious camera lest it should break loose and fall into the sea, whilst with the other hand I turned the handle. But frequently I had to stop and grip the planks hard to avoid taking an unpremeditated header. Fortunately, however, no mishap occurred; and the result—showing the iron-shod stem of the ship splitting and rending the broken ice into the foaming sea—proved to be one of the most thrilling of all the moving-picture records of the Expedition.
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Herbert Ponting (1870–1935)  wikidata:Q127805
 
Herbert Ponting
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Herbert G. Ponting; Herbert George Ponting; Herbert G. Pointing; H. G. Ponting; Herbert G Ponting
Description British explorer, photographer, film director, photojournalist and polar explorer
Date of birth/death 21 March 1870 Edit this at Wikidata 7 February 1935 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Salisbury Edit this at Wikidata London Edit this at Wikidata
Work period 1900 Edit this at Wikidata–1935 Edit this at Wikidata
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Asia; Antarctica Edit this at Wikidata
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