#Scott Of The Antarctic

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Scott of the Antarctic (1948) Charles Frend

December 30th 2024

[thesuetyouforgot]

Just them and their scarves... <3 That's it. That's the post

[birdiebowers]

I started watching "scott of the antarctic" and i love my roman empire

[laurielover1912]

One day, I'm going to have to write some polar boy fanfic. But what and how and stuff? It's been brewing for decades, since TLPoE, let's face it. I mean, look at my username.

And there's all this comment and art on here and photos I've never seen before ... and it's under my skin as much as it was when I was 14 and imagined I travelled back in time and lived in the Cape Evans hut with them all in 1911 (and I was older in my head obvs) and they all fell in love with me (well, Deb and Atch and Nelson and Day and Cherry and sometimes even Con) but my heart only belonged to the Soldier cos he was beautiful but a total fucking enigma (but also not).

[visplay]

Chris: Scott of the Antarctic is a British adventure film about a tragic historical polar expedition, this is a famous British film, made in 1948 and a bit dated, a miniseries I saw a long time ago about the same expedition was much more real, so this is a something of a soft rendition of a hard tale, so for British film buffs, Watch: When Free.

[jeanhm]

[theweeowlart]

Tonight's listening is Ralph Vaughan Williams icy cold 'Sinfonia Antarctica'. My recording is my treasured old vinyl, André Previn (AKA Andrew Preview😆) with the London Symphony Orchestra.

The piece has it's origins in the composer's soundtrack for the film 'Scott of the Antarctic'.

You'll want your cardigan for this listen!

[thehutpoint]

That horse, that horse, THAT HORSE. I CANNOT WITH THAT HORSE! 🤬🤬🤬 It's a goddamn fjordhest! You can see from the space it's a fjordhest, not a manchurian! I mean I know they shot parts of it in Norway, so maybe dragging horses from UK (a country rife with little hairy pony breeds) was too troublesome and expensive, but ffs, nobody tells me there were no fifteen small gray horses in whole Norway.

more cold boys at the movies (focus: a film review, 1949)

[illneverbeapassenger]

Pressure ridges, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.

October 2024.

[buildoblivion]

[peatbogpirate]

Polar comic of the day. Guys I think he has other things on his mind

(Some context for this mess:

“Certainly Kathleen’s diary shows that - for a brief while - she was indeed considering Lawrence in the role of a suitor. She described it as an ‘acute attack of Lawrencitis’.”

- From ‘An ‘Acute Attack of Lawrencitis’: Lady Kathleen Scott’s Friendship with the Lawrence Family’ by Alison Jolley (read here)

“And although Kathleen and Peter took the train in the direction of Lamer at least one weekend in the month to bask in Cherry's devoted hospitality, he was either too overawed to be physically attracted or his sickly conscience got in the way. She coolly found him "a young thing."”

- From ‘Shaw’s Sculptress, Kathleen Scott’ by Stanley Weintraub (read here)

“If our sexes had been different (one of us, I mean) we could have pulled off a eugenist's dream. As it is there's only a mutual admiration available.”

- A 1927 letter from TE Lawrence to Cherry (read here))

[thesuetyouforgot]

Epics by Gerry Schlick and his team

...and of course the classic

Scott of the Antarctic Monty Python's Flying Circus (S02 E10)

[fr-likes-chocolate]

I have this very loose hc that Empires 1 Scott trained under the Antarctic emperors at Aeor’s request. Both Philza and Techno helped advise Scott during the events of Empires s1 and also helped organize the elf’s funeral.

I have another loose hc that Rivendell invented/popularized the gas mask and hazmat suit to deal with corruption.

So imagine thousands of years after Rivendell’s collapse, the immortal emperor Philza finds himself in the middle of a bloody conflict. An all seeing eye has pit his friends against him with the promist of the winners seeing their children again.

Its day one. Philza’s team is desperate. They need something, anything. So Phil goes to the provided merchant to see what they offer.

Up on the shelf, just to the left of the merchant is a gas mask. Suddenly Phil is back in the snowy mountains, checking up on his pupil. Scott is telling him about this new mask some of the craftsmen made to prevent breathing any fumes from the corruption.

Its a simple memory, but its enough for Phil to return to the others with enough gas masks for all. Its enough to prompt him to put his own on so that the others dont need to seem him cry, mourning a pupil that has been dead and his name forgotten from everything but Philza’s mind.

[writingestexplorer]

A while back I bought this on Ebay. It's an album made by someone (I'm imagining a boy scout but given its appeal here it may have been a middle-aged woman) with some pretty fragile original press clippings and handwritten notes. I got it laminated so it didn't fall apart any further.

"Every possible thing was provided man could want, so it was nothing to do with food that killed them. after reaching the Pole they retraced their steps. after crossing the glacier, Petty Officer Evans died of concussion of the brain, through walking over rough ice. He was the strong man of the Party and the least expected to succumb. It left them a shaken party.

After journeying on through the average of 47° of frost they reached eleven miles from the one ton depot when a fearful blizzard began. Captain Oates, who had been ill & bearing suffering without grumbling, thought he was keeping back the party & said “I am going out in the blizzard & I may be gone a long time”. They new he was walking to his death, but knew it was the act of a British hero and an English gentleman. His body was never found. They had food enough for two days and only eleven miles more to go, all would have gone well, had not the blizzard detained them. The knew their end was near so this is a brief discription of what Cap. Scott wrote. He said he hoped people would help the relations etc. of people who died. They had taken risks and new it, but did it to show Englishmen could undergo hardships.

Relief parties were sent out and found dead bodies & Cap Scott’s letter."

[mirages-and-polar-ice]

Terra Nova/RF Scott stuff at the National Maritime Museum!!

Emblem of HMS Scott (with Percy the Penguin)🐧

Percy the Penguin in the flesh 🐧

Some of the crew of the Terra Nova in the mess of their hut on Cape Evans (left) and the empty mess (right)

Photo of the Terra Nova hut from the outside

Edgar Evans & Tom Crean mending sleeping bags 🥰

The South Pole Crew photograph (actually almost cried when I saw this)

Some artifacts from the Terra Nova expedition:

12. Theodolite used to fix the position of the South Pole

13. Primus-stove parts that were used by the men

14. Scott’s sledging goggles

15. A ration bag

A photo of Scott in his den which I’m sure you’ve all seen too but it’s still cool

And last but not least…

A tie pin owned by Scott. I’ll let you read the info card bc there’s a lot there but I thought it was very interesting

[ltwilliammowett]

Furling Sail in the Pack, by Sailors on the Terra Nova. Photo by Herbert Ponting c. 1910- 1913