Northern Ireland Outdoors Forum - Hiking, camping and more
General => Meets, places, trips and reviews => Topic started by: twentyclicks on September 26, 2011
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QFT are showing the 1924 documentary film of Scott's footage taken in the Antarctic at 4pm on Sun 23rd Oct.
Plenty of time to get home, washed and fed after the Binnian camp! Prob need to book as the screens are small.
Also on Thurs 20th some fella is doing a talk about some photos that have been uncovered from the expedition. It's in Elmwood hall, £10. Part of Belfast Festival @ Queen's. I really can't get a feel for what it will be like...not paying a tenner to look at some photos that may have been the less good ones someone stuffed in a drawer. If anyone hears more please post.
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Sorry what is QFT?
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Sorry - Queen's Film Theatre. It's beside the university.
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i'll defo be going to see the doc at qft.... nice post !
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I'd be very interested to see this, good post.
http://goo.gl/VCGj2
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I'll try and pop for the film if i'm free, won't know til that week when the kids give me my taxi duty roster ;D
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Well done on the link Yak.
Good timing Mike - you'll have read all about it by then.
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Im reading Shackeltons book (free on Kindle - read on pc or android)... has great lines in it like (talking about the sleigh dogs)....
"if they were as keen to pull our sledges as they now are to fight one another all would be well"
I love that....
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Film was interesting, quite ambiant modern score accompanying it. My eyes kept closing which meant I missed a few of the descriptive frames (it is a silent movie), and the old people beside me kept talking loudly to each other; pointing out weird grammar or who's dog the husky reminded them of ::)
Classic footage, and amazing to see the different timescale, equipment (minimal in count, but lacking our material advances. Layering and thin windshirts were evident though), and attitudes about some things; like the purpose of the expedition and the circumstances around their ultimate fate.
The expedition mascot 'black' cat had a rather un-PC name. While it performed cute tricks on camera you could feel the room hesitant to laugh at the innocent hilarity lest it be misconstrued as racism ;D