Patricia A. Suchy and Vince LiCata, Persistence of Vision: Antarctica, premiered March, 2017
Patricia A. Suchy and Vince LiCata, Science, from Persistence of Vision: Antarctica, 6:29 min
Historical photograph: Herbert Ponting, Ponting on the Penguinry, Cape Royds, 1911 Contemporary video: David Ainley posed and working in the same location, in the same penguin colony, among the Adélie penguins he has studied for several decades.
Historical photograph: Frank Debenham, Peculiar arrangement of amygdules in volcanic rock, 1912 Contemporary video: Rosa Affleck, US Army research civil engineer, examines a rock on the shore of McMurdo Sound.
Historical photograph: Herbert Ponting, The return of the Western Geological Party, 1912 Contemporary video: Stream Team researchers from the Long Term Ecological Research (LTER) project standing on a ridge in the McMurdo Dry Valleys with a LIDAR survey instrument.
Historical photograph: Herbert Ponting, Dr. Wilson at the sunshine recorder, 1911 Contemporary video: Krzysztof Krzton, technician from the Australian Bureau of Meteorology, checks equipment measuring solar radiation on the edge of the Ross Ice Shelf as part of the Atmospheric Radiation Measurement program
Herbert Ponting, Frank Debenham making a plane table survey, 1911 Contemporary video: Zach Sudman of the LTER Stream Team surveys current stream levels in the McMurdo Dry Valleys
Patricia A. Suchy and Vince LiCata, Provisioning, from Persistence of Vision: Antarctica, 7:33 min
Historical photograph: Herbert Ponting, The Cook [Thomas Clissold] making pies, 1912 Contemporary video: Jake Cerese, Lead Baker, in the kitchen of McMurdo’s Building 155 mess hall.
Historical photograph: Herbert Ponting, Petty Officer Evans and [Tom] Crean mending sleeping bags, 1911. Contemporary video: Bija Sass and Sparky, field coordinators, mending sleeping bags in the Berg Field Center, McMurdo Station.
Historical film: Herbert Ponting, unloading cargo at Cape Evans, 1911, from The Great White Silence, 1924 Contemporary video: Unloading and taking on cargo from the Ocean Giant at the Ice Pier at McMurdo Station.
Historical photograph: Herbert Ponting, Lieutenant [Henry "Birdie"] Bowers, 1911 Contemporary video: Joseph Singleton, Senior Food Materials Staff, with “Food Monkeys,” athletic young women who scramble up the tall narrow shelves to retrieve supplies in food warehouse at McMurdo Station.
Historical photograph: Herbert Ponting, The Terra Nova sailing thro' the Pack, 1910 Contemporary video: Gary Cardullo, USAP Airfield Manager, and Katy Jensen, USAP Contractor, observe a C-130 airplane landing at Williams Field on the Ross Ice Shelf.
Patricia A. Suchy and Vince LiCata, Pole, from Persistence of Vision: Antarctica, 5:27 min
Historical photographs:
Olav Bjaaland, Roald Amundsen, Helmer Hanssen, Sverre Hassel, and Oscar Wisting at Polheim, 1911
Herbert Ponting, from a negative taken by Henry Bowers, [Robert Falcon Scott, Lawrence Oates, Edward Adrian Wilson, and Edgar Evans] At the pole, 1912
Contemporary video: Researchers and staff at Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station re-enact the two historic images. The re- enactors include researchers at the IceCube Neutrino Laboratory, the South Pole Ice Core project, and the CosRay cosmic ray observatory, as well as US Antarctic Program support staff including firemen, fuel technicians, cooks, and others who keep the South Pole Station running.
Additional credits: Sound Design: Hal Lambert Pole videography and audio interview support: Jim Madsen Assistant editors: Josh Hamzehee, Georgia Hansen, John Shaw, Michaela Todaro, Gabrielle Vigueira