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PONTING, Herbert.

Mr. Herbert G. Ponting's cinema lecture

"With Scott in the Antarctic."

Stock Code
95443
LondonLloyds Film Agency,
£500

Scarce ephemeral publication promoting Ponting's cinematographic record of animal and bird life in the South polar regions whilst on the British Antarctic Expedition of 1910-1913.

As official photographer on Scott's last expedition Ponting captured the animals and landscape using high quality glass plates as well as moving images using a cinematograph. He also took some of the first known colour still photographs using autochrome plates.

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Description

First edition. 4to., 8 pages including 5 full-page photographs of Antarctic wildlife, original yellow pictorial cover, 1 page flyer loosely inserted, a fine example.

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