ANTARCTIC FILM

Press, Volume CV, Issue 30951, 6 January 1966, Page 1

ANTARCTIC FILM

8.8. C. Team’s Plans

The British Broadcasting Corporation would make a one-hour documentary film in the Antarctic this month, said Mr A. C. Railing, director and producer of the three-man television crew which will be making the film, in Christchurch yesterday. Mr Railing arrived yesterday with the team’s cameraman. Mr C. Lagus. Mr Peter Scott, son of Captain Robert Falcon Scott, will arrive today They will spend a fortnight in the Antarctic as guests of the United States and New Zealand

Mr Railing said that another 8.8. C. television team which visited the Antarctic earlier this season had made short magazine items. His team would be filming a much longer and more ambitious programme. It would be shown on the B B.C.’s weekly current affairs programme, “Panorama.” Old film dating back to Scott’s expeditions was available in London, and some of this might be used in the documentary. Mr Railing said he had not worked with Peter Scott before. but Mr Lagus had done a lot of work with him on his nature programmes. Work for the “Panorama ’ programme has taken Mr Railing to many parts of the world, including Vietnam, the United States and China, where he made a 40-minute film 11 months ago.