South

1919 · 81 MIN · IMDB 7.3 · 642 VOTES · DIR. Frank Hurley

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Overview

The story of the 1914-1916 Antarctic exploration mission of Sir Ernest Shackleton.

Dialogue Timeline — 652 lines

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00:00:11 This is the original documentary film record of Sir Ernest Shackleton's "glorious failure"
00:02:19 Hurley was a tough, resourceful and fearless adventurer
00:03:58 This delay was due to reports of unusually severe ice conditions in Antarctica that year.
00:05:56 was another Scot, who had spent his childhood in the Scilly Isles
00:09:04 and Shackleton suffered grievously from scurvy.
00:11:01 would journey from the Weddell Sea towards the Pole.
00:12:44 for that begs the question, who is taking the film of him?
00:16:46 the Endurance progressed a little further
00:18:42 and sent all hands onto the floe with ice chisels, prickers, saws and picks. "
00:21:33 What a great, courageous and inspired cameraman Frank Hurley was.
00:24:04 Hurley gave lantern slide shows of his travels to the Far East
00:26:07 they were shot
00:32:43 was to be his banjo playing
00:35:47 have proved to be an invaluable source of information
00:38:46 Water began to break through and the ship's pumps were manned continuously
00:40:21 The film was put deliberately slowly through the camera by turning its handle too slowly.
00:42:49 Very soon, however, the proposed march across the ice, hauling the three boats
00:46:58 These views of the stricken Endurance
00:53:54 In simple flashes, we see the hauling of the boats to a third camp, Patience Camp
00:57:12 showing us the inhospitable face that South Georgia offered to Shackleton
00:58:54 "I said nothing to my companions on the point
01:00:41 and by how Ponting's admirable lecturing skills made characters out of the creatures.
01:09:01 when Shackleton lectured to it daily
01:20:00 and apart from publicising his book of the expedition and the film

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed652
Dialogue density8.0 lines / min
First line00:00:11
Final line01:20:00

Production Record

DirectorFrank Hurley
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes642