Dr. Mawson in the Antarctic (1913)

Original title

Home of the Blizzard

Directed by

Frank Hurley

Genre

documentary film

Country

Australia

Runtime

1h 08m

Rating

8.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This film shows footage from Douglas Mawson's 1911 to 1914 Antarctic expedition. It documents the explorers' journey and their work in a harsh, icy landscape.

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What happens

Dr. Mawson in the Antarctic, known by many other titles, including in Australia as Home of the Blizzard, and released on the UK as Life in the Antarctic, is a collection of silent documentary footage of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition (AAE). The AAE was a 1911–1914 expedition to Antarctica led by Australian geologist and explorer Douglas Mawson, which was photographed with both still camera and cinematograph by one of the expedition members who was also the official photographer, Frank Hurley. The moving picture footage was released in varying versions, sometimes along with stills, with its first iterations in Australia, released in 1912 and 1913, titled With Mawson in the South. Direction of the film has been ascribed to Hurley, but the history of the film indicates otherwise; it was likely that he was only the cinematographer. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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