Description: glass plate negative;Hand written by Ponting: Jan 7th 1911. 111. Mr HG Ponting Cinematographing Skua Gulls feeding on a dead seal.;Hand written on top of envelope: 111. and A in purple ink. Popperfoto label: Scanned V.I.;Box 3: Hand written by Ponting (?) on inside lid: Mr H.G. Ponting, 47 Oxford Mansion, Oxford Circus, W.1. and on outside A250 - ?320. Popperfoto label on outside of box: H. Ponting: Scott’s Antarctic Expedition Expedition 1911-1912. 73 - 112A. Width 8 inches, height 7 inches, depth 6 inches. … negatives. Scratched.;Typed label: 111. Ponting cinematographing skua gulls. Jan. 7th 1911.
Collection: British Antarctic Expedition 1910-13 (Ponting Collection)
Summary text: Ponting sits on a box at a film camera which stands on a tripod. He is filming a group of gulls which stand on the ice pecking at a dead seal. An iceberg and ship ‘Terra Nova’ in the distance across an ice field.
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