This 1898 film is the earliest known surviving footage relating to the Heroic Age of Antarctic exploration. Sir George Newnes, who first published Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes short stories in The Strand Magazine, is seen here bidding farewell to the crew.
Production
Actual 1898 film stock. You're watching cellulose time travel.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Newnes made his fortune publishing Tit-Bits magazine, a Victorian Buzzfeed, before bankrolling actual polar doom.
This predates Captain Scott's famed expeditions by over a decade—this is where British Antarctic obsession begins on film.
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