South & The Heroic Age Of Antarctic Exploration On Film

South & the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration on Film (DVD +Blu-ray)Director: Frank Hurley On 5 January 1922 the ‘heroic age’ of Antarctic exploration drew to a symbolic close with the death of Anglo-Irish explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. Marking this centenary, this collection of films tells a connected story about human endurance and our relationship with the natural world. The birth of film coincided with exploration’s heyday as a competitive sport, a source of national pride and beacon of scientific discovery. The work of pioneer filmmakers in the remotest corners of our planet has fuelled a century of genre-spanning cinema and furthered our understanding of the ravages of climate change. The Films Antarctic Expedition: Sir George Newnes' Farewell to Officers and Crew (1998, 1 min) Departure of Shackleton's British Antarctic Expedition from Lyttelton, New Zealand, 1908 (1908, 8 mins) Nihon nankyoku tanken (1912, 19 mins) Fram's South Polar Expedition (22 mins) Australasian Antarctic Expedition Films aka The Home of the Blizzard (c1916, 68 mins) Pathé’s Animated Gazette No. 140 (extract, 1911, 45 secs) South – Sir Ernest Shackleton’s Glorious Epic of the Antarctic (Frank Hurley, 1919, 81 mins) Topical Budget - Dogs for the Antarctic (extract, 1914, 1 min)>/li> Dogs for the Antarctic - Sir Ernest Shackleton's dogs in quarantine at Beddington (extract, 1914, 1 min) Australasion Gazette - Captain Davis returns to Sydney... (extract, 1917, 30 secs) The Late Sir Ernest Shackleton Bathing Query (extract, 1922, 2 mins) El Homenaje Del Uruguay A Los Restos De Sir Ernest Shackleton (1922, 11 mins) Shackleton's Funeral (extract, 1922, 5 mins) Shackleton South Georgia Birds (1920, 13 mins)