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HERBERT GEORGE PONTING (1871-1935) [Antarctic explorer who was Photographic Officer on Captain Scott's last South Pole Expedition 1910-1913]
Typewritten letter signed ("Ponto") to "Dear Cherry," Apsley Cherry-Garrard, the explorer and author, 1½ pp., Oxford Circus, 23rd July 1930.
A revealing letter in which Ponting expresses his determination to get the Scott film going, especially in view of the American film of Byrd's expedition which had just come out. "If the Scott story is not got going, film goers, and they number millions will get to think only of the Byrd achievement. It will be an American 'discovery.' The film speaker said that 'Byrd has discovered and mapped the route to the South Pole.' I told him that that was done 19 years ago by Amundsen, over whose route they flew, as well as by Scott and Shackleton. He realises that a great mistake is made".
Ponting succeeded in his attempt and in 1933 the film "90° South" was completed, a motion picture of the Scott Expedition synchronised with Ponting's own story of the adventure.
Typewritten letter signed ("Ponto") to "Dear Cherry," Apsley Cherry-Garrard, the explorer and author, 1½ pp., Oxford Circus, 23rd July 1930.
A revealing letter in which Ponting expresses his determination to get the Scott film going, especially in view of the American film of Byrd's expedition which had just come out. "If the Scott story is not got going, film goers, and they number millions will get to think only of the Byrd achievement. It will be an American 'discovery.' The film speaker said that 'Byrd has discovered and mapped the route to the South Pole.' I told him that that was done 19 years ago by Amundsen, over whose route they flew, as well as by Scott and Shackleton. He realises that a great mistake is made".
Ponting succeeded in his attempt and in 1933 the film "90° South" was completed, a motion picture of the Scott Expedition synchronised with Ponting's own story of the adventure.