Six Films of Early Exploration Introduced from the Royal Geographical Society bv Duncan Carse
1: South with Shackleton (1914)
An amazing film of one of the greatest survival stories of all time - SIR ERNEST SHACKLETON S voyage to the Antarctic in 1914. Sir Ernest set sail in his ship Endurance in October 1914. Nine weeks later he was caught by the pack-ice and frozen in solid. For the next ten months he drifted helplessly with the ice-floes. Then in November 1915 the ice finally crushed and sank the Endurance. For five more months Shackleton and his men camped on the drifting icebergs until in the end Shackleton was forced to make an 800-mile voyage in one of the ship's boats in search of help.
Finally, in September 1916, nearly two years after setting out, the whole expedition was successfully rescued. Not a single man had been lost.
Incredibly, almost all of this historic voyage was captured on film by the expedition's cameraman, FRANK HURLEY ; and the story is told in the words of the expedition members: an epic story of Polar survival.
Narrator MICHAEL KILGARRIFF
Film editor ROLAND TONGUE
Assistant producer DAWN A. SWERLING Producer RICHARD ROBINSON