South
1919 · 81 MIN · IMDB 7.3 · 642 VOTES · DIR. Frank Hurley
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
Ernest Shackleton
self, Leader of the Expedition
Frank Worsley
Self
Frank Worsley
Captain of the Endurance
J. Stenhouse
self, Captain of the Aurora
L. Hussey
self,
L. Hussey
Meteorologist
Dr. McIlroy
self, Head of Scientific Staff
Mr. Wordie
self, Head of Scientific Staff
Dr. Macklin
self, Doctor
Frank Wild
self, Second in Command of the Endurance
Tom Crean
Self
Tom Crean
Crewman
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed652
Dialogue density8.0 lines / min
First line00:00:11
Final line01:20:00
Production Record
DirectorFrank Hurley
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes642