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GREAT DOCUMENTARY FILMS
The Byrd expedition to the South Pole.
The film of Admiral Byrd's expedition to the Antarctic regions is an example of a complete and perfect documentary film. This is no mere cinematographic record of episodes and facts, of interest possibly to the specialist but with little or no appeal to the ordinary cinema public. The Byrd film is a piece of real life, a chapter in history containing passages which .border on tragedy but end in glorious victory. It palpitates with life, arousing a sense of the unknown and the dangerous and, in this age of materialism, compelling the most intrepid to pay his tribute to men of action and high endeavour.
Admiral Richard Byrd is so wellknown the world over that there is nothing new to j say about him. The reader hardly needs reminding that he was the first aviator to fly over the Arctic regions and the second to cross the Atlantic.
On August 15th, 1928, he again set out upon a bold venture, bound this time for the South Pole. Two ice-breakers, the " City of New York " and the " Eleanor Boiling ", carried the whole of the material for the expedition, which included three aeroplanes fitted with skates, a hundred sleighs, two hundred pack-dogs, portable
Admiral Richard Bvrd.
huts, tents, food and medicine in abundance and a complete wireless station. The crews numbered not more than 500, of whom only 42 belonged to the expedition proper; the rest were to remain at the base. The object of the expedition was to continue the series of Antarctic explorations of Scott, Shackleton, Wilson, von Drigalski, Nordenskjoeld, Charcot, Cook and Amundsen — names sacred in the annals of geographical research — which, although reaching the South Pole and discovering the shape of a number of bays, coasts gulfs and plateaux, had revealed only part of the secrets so jealously guarded by the formidable ice-barriers of the Antarctic. The task before the Byrd expedition wasjto study the nature of the soil; whether it contained precious minerals, volcanic activity; physical phenomena; meteorological and atmospheric conditions, a knowledge of which might lead to the discovery of the third and last factor in the atmospheric conditions of the globe; the fauna and flora; and finally all the elements needed to make a chart of the Antarctic regions. Big as was this task, it was carried out in its entirety, thanks to that tenacity of purpose characteristic of the born navigator.
In the course of the expedition more