New Zealand filmmaker Anthony B. Powell takes a look at life near the South Pole in “Antarctica: A Year on Ice.” He features interviews with numerous workers including cooks, mechanics, store clerks, administration personnel, scientists, and others. This fascinating documentary is centered on two research bases: New Zealand’s Scott Base and U. S. A.’s McMurdo Station. (There are some thirty nations that have bases at the bottom of the earth.)
Several hundred workers are stationed in these bases in the summer months, October to February. More than half leave at the end of this period, leaving a skeleton crew to perform basic maintenance on machinery and custodial tasks. One interesting feature in “Antarctica: A Year on Ice” is Powell using time-lapse photography to give us a view of Antarctica that most of us will never view in person, and a visit to a continent that most us will likely never visit at all.
Antarctica: A Year On Ice (2013)
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New Zealand filmmaker Anthony B. Powell takes a look at life near the South Pole in “Antarctica: A Year on Ice.” He features interviews with numerous workers including cooks, mechanics, store clerks, administration personnel, scientists, and others. This fascinating documentary is centered on two research bases: New Zealand’s Scott Base and U. S. A.’s McMurdo Station. (There are some thirty nations that have bases at the bottom of the earth.)
Several hundred workers are stationed in these bases in the summer months, October to February. More than half leave at the end of this period, leaving a skeleton crew to perform basic maintenance on machinery and custodial tasks. One interesting feature in “Antarctica: A Year on Ice” is Powell using time-lapse photography to give us a view of Antarctica that most of us will never view in person, and a visit to a continent that most us will likely never visit at all.