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name: "Herbert G. Ponting"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/herbert-g-ponting"
fi1m_id: "herbert-g-ponting"
tmdb_id: 931420
roles: ["Cinematographer","Director"]
born: "21 March 1870"
died: "7 February 1935"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-09-25T06:04:17.270053+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Herbert G. Ponting

## Identity

Herbert G. Ponting

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/herbert-g-ponting
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** herbert-g-ponting
- **TMDB ID:** 931420
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/931420

Cinematographer and director. Born 21 March 1870 in Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK. Died 7 February 1935.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer, Director
- **Born:** 21 March 1870, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK
- **Died:** 7 February 1935
- **Also known as:** Herbert G. Ponting F.R.G.S. F.R.P.S., Herbert Ponting, Herbert George Ponting
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/931420

## Streaming the US now

- **The Roku Channel:** [*The Great White Silence*](https://film.one/film/the-great-white-silence.md) (81)

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## Biography

Herbert G. Ponting was an English photographer and cinematographer. He served as the official photographer and filmmaker on Robert Falcon Scott’s Terra Nova Expedition to the Antarctic (1910–1913), capturing still images and moving footage of the journey, wildlife and expedition life.

Ponting later edited his material into the 1924 documentary *The Great White Silence*, in which he also appeared. He had trained and worked as a professional photographer before the expedition, with earlier travels in Asia and elsewhere.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, screenonline.org.uk, nationalgeographic.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Great White Silence* (1924), Fi1m 81, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/the-great-white-silence.md)

## Complete filmography (4)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *90° South* (1933), Director, Story, Director of Photography, Presenter, Cinematography
- *The Great White Silence* (1924), Director, Cinematography — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/the-great-white-silence.md)
- *Captain Scott's South Pole Expedition* (1912), Director, Cinematography
- *With Captain Scott in the Antarctic* (1912), Director, Cinematography

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