HOLMFIRTH composer Barry Russell has created a live soundtrack for an iconic 1920s film about Captain Scott’s ill-fated race to the South Pole.
Barry and six other musicians will play the music live when the film is shown tomorrow in the atrium of the creative arts building at the University of Huddersfield at 8.30pm.
The film was made by director Herbert Ponting in 1924 as a silent movie. The film’s beautifully tinted frames reveal the true mystery and majesty of the alien landscape in which Captain Scott and his team battled against the elements on the Terra Nova Expedition of 1910-13.
Herbert Ponting joined Scott on board the Terra Nova and was the expedition’s official photographer and cinematographer.
Ponting filmed almost every aspect of the expedition. The scientific work, life in camp and the local wildlife including the Adélie penguins.
The British Film Institute has won awards for its decade long restoration of Mr Ponting’s film which was one of the highlights of the Holmfirth Film Festival earlier this summer.
