One Hundred and Forty Days Under the World

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Movie
Original title One Hundred and Forty Days Under the World
Country of production New Zealand
original language English
Publishing year 1964
length 33 minutes
Rod
Director Kell Fowler
production Geoffrey Scott ,
Oxley Hughan
camera Kell Fowler
cut Ronald Bowie
synchronization

Ronald Bowie: Speaker

One Hundred and Forty Days Under the World is a New Zealand documentary - short film in 1964. Directed by the New Zealand cameraman Kell Fowler .

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The film shows the organization, but also the research in New Zealand's Scott Base on Ross Island off Antarctica in the summer season from October 1963 to February 1964. Scientists from twelve nations arrive at the beginning of October who want to carry out their research in the summer season , but also the team that is to occupy the base for the next twelve months. You put the station back into summer mode. This also includes digging the remaining supplies from the previous year out of the snow; the supplies are needed because it will be weeks before the station's supply ship, the Endeavor , can get there. The sled dogs that have overwintered in the station also have to be trained; This season the Ross Dependency exploration will be completed with their help . Three teams of two, each with a dog sled, will initially fly over 300 miles by plane and will then map the country for about 1,600 miles for three months. Another team of researchers set off with a gasoline-powered sled to measure how much snow has fallen over the winter. Still other researchers observe a breeding colony of Adelie penguins .

It is now early summer in Wellington . The supply ship Endeavor sets off from there to travel to Scott Base. First it goes to the Ross Sea . There the ship is held up by pack ice. It must therefore wait for three American icebreakers , whose work is shown in detail. When the Endeavor arrives near the station, the young penguins have already hatched. You are alone most of the time, as the parents have to fetch the food from the sea several kilometers away. Other research projects include studies of seals, for example how they survived the winter. In ice mines, old ice is examined far below the surface to see whether the ice cover is growing or shrinking. Glacier researchers are installing markings that will help determine how the ice surface is moving next summer. In addition, previously unknown largely ice-free valleys in the Antarctic are to be explored.

At the beginning of February it will be colder again; the station is being prepared for the coming winter. And those who only came for the summer have to hurry to get home on the Endeavor or by plane.

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One Hundred and Forty Days Under the World was produced by the National Film Unit (NFU), New Zealand's state film production company . The film premiered in Christchurch on November 6, 1964 .

Oscar nomination

At the Oscar ceremony in 1965 the producers were Geoffrey Scott and Oxley Hughan with One Hundred and Fourty Days Under the World for an Oscar in the category Best Short Documentary nominated. However, the award went to Charles Guggenheim for Nine from Little Rock .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Title and direction, as well as camera, editing and narrator according to the opening credits of the film.
  2. ↑ Geoffrey Scott. In: NZ On Screen. Retrieved February 8, 2020 .
  3. ^ National Film Unit (2nd of 2). In: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand. Retrieved February 8, 2020 .
  4. ↑ United States. Antarctic Projects Office (Ed.): Bulletin of the US Antarctic Projects Officer . tape 6 , no. 3 . University of Minnesota, Jan 1965, pp. 7 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search [accessed February 8, 2020]).
  5. ↑ The 37th Academy Awards | 1965. In: Oscars.org. Retrieved February 8, 2020 .