LIFE IN ANTARCTICA.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 155, 29 December 1911, Page 7

LIFE IN ANTARCTICA.

KINEMATOGRAPHIC ENTERPRISE. London, November 17. Visitors to the London Coliseum next week will be able to spend half an hour with Captain Scott and his merry mien at the South Pole, without sharing the intrepid explorer's discomforts. The Coliseum authorities have secured from the Gaumont Company the right of the first presentation in England of a fascinating set of twenty cinematographic picture of the British Antarctic expedition —the first of a scries called "With Captain Seott to the South Pole," which will constitute a cinematographic record of the work of the British Antarctic expedition from the time of the departure from New Zealand to February of this year. A further series will soon be ready, and the third and final set may be expected soon after the return of the expedition, which, it is hoped, may be in the spring or early summer of 1912. The pictures, which were exhibited yesterday, by invitation of the Coliseum management, in conjunction with the Gaumont Company, Ltd., who are holders of the exclusive rights therein, have been takes by Mr. Herbert (i. Ponting, F.R.G.S., aboard the Terra Nova, and they are of intense interest. As a variety "turn" the display has the strong advantage of not being too long; in half an hour this score <:.f vivid scenes is put before the eyes of the public, who, in that short space of time, are enabled to get a more impressive idea of what Polar expedition means. Many of the scenes are quite terrible in their suggestion of bitter cold and infinite isolation; but throughout there is a sense of high spirit of comradeship without which such ventures could not be. The Terra Nova is seen cutting her way' through miles of floe, and the scrunching and pounding of the ice can almost be heard. Taking soundings, skinning penguins, disembarking the Siberian ponies, skiing on the slopes of Mount Erebus, sledging with dogs—these are some of the best things depicted. Funniest of all is the "rounding-up" of innumerable penguins, which scamper and slither over the snow in the drollest fashion.