Also been learning more about Ponting’s Prestwich Kinematograph cine camera, which used 35mm film in 300ft internal wooden magazines.

It was hand-cranked with two eight-frame-per-turn shafts and one single frame shaft. Truly a thing of beauty:

https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co8084524/the-prestwich-model-5-cine-camera-cine-camera

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Thoroughly recommend adding Herbert Ponting’s ‘The Great White Silence’ to your watch list if you haven’t already — the official record of Captain Scott’s heroic journey to the South Pole and a treasured Blu-ray from The British Film Institute.

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Hoping the book is as good as the cover! A thoughtful gift from my son: a biography by Anne Strathie about Herbert Ponting, one of my favourite photographers and filmmakers.

Among many achievements, Ponting famously documented Captain Scott’s second Antarctic expedition to the South Pole in 1912.

The cover portrait shows Ponting at Cape Evans with his Prestwich Kinematograph cine camera.

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