The Great White Silence

Herbert Ponting's official record of Captain Scott's legendary expedition to the South Pole, restored by the BFI and featuring a score by Simon Fisher Turner, captures in breath-taking detail the alien beauty of the landscape, and ensured that the heroism involved would never be forgotten. The BFI National Archive (custodian of the expedition negatives) created this award-winning restoration using the latest photochemical and digital techniques and reintroduced its sophisticated use of colour. (British Film Institute (BFI))