Six films of early exploration Introduced by Duncan Carse 1: Storm Cape Horn (1929)
' Now we are off for great sailing adventures aboard the enormous four-masted barque, the Peking, the largest sailing ship in the world ...' So, in 1929, a young American yachtsman and sailor, Irving Johnson , started his story of an epic 11,000-mile voyage from Hamburg to Chile - via Cape Horn. First, in the North Sea, they encountered a savage winter gale that wrecked 68 ships; then in the doldrums 13-foot jellyfish drifted by ... ' and the turkey got sick so we ate him quick before he died.' Finally, off the Horn came the storm; winds over 100 miles an hour; waves 80 feet high; the decks almost completely under water and endlessly swept by great seas ... Johnson wrote: ' No other pictures have ever been taken under these circumstances, nor ever will be now; and I was there with my camera; how lucky can you be?
Original narrator
CAPTAIN IRVING JOHNSON
Film editor paddy WILSON Producer
RICHARD ROBINSON