The film Scott of the Antarctic with John Mills as Captain Scott is good value, despite some romanticised and nationalistic themes. William, played by actor, and later producer, Norman Williams, makes a brief appearance. The score for the soundtrack was written by Ralph Vaughan Williams who developed it into his Sinfonia antartica - there are several CD recordings of this. Peter Maxwell Davies also has a Symphonia Antarctica (Symphony No.8) written in 2000 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the film and inspired by his own visit to the Antarctic. In 1991, Australia-born Nigel Westlake was Commissioned to write the score for the Imax feature film Antarctica. He later re-worked the score into an Orchestral Suite for Guitar & Orchestra - commissioned for John Williams and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra in celebration of the ABC's 60th anniversary. To find out more about music and the Antarctic see work by researcher and lecturer in Musicology at the University of Tasmania Carolyn Philpott.

Herbert Ponting not only took great photographs on the Terra Nova Expedition but also filmed a 9.5mm movie. An edited version 90 Degrees South: With Scott to the Antarctic is available on DVD but also a high definition restored and digitised version of this, together with other material, called the Great White Silence.

To get a taste of Ralph Vaughan Williams' symphony, accompanied by some photographs we took while visiting Antarctica, click on the video.

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