Entertaining in Antarctica- Captain Scott Style!

Thank you again to our friends from the EMI Archive Trust for sending this great picture of Sir John Mills playing the role of Captain Scott in ‘Scott of the Antarctic’ 1948.

Sir John Mills as Captain Scott in the film 'Scott of the Antartic' 1948
Sir John Mills as Captain Scott in the film ‘Scott of the Antarctic’ 1948

When Captain Robert Falcon Scott embarked upon the Terra Nova expedition to Antarctica and the South Pole in 1910 he took with him two HMV ‘Monarch Gramophones’, loaned by The Gramophone Company, and several hundred 78rpm shellac discs specifically chosen to boost the team’s morale. Read more about it here! http://www.emiarchivetrust.org/captain-scotts-gramophone/     Usage Rights All usage to be cleared by EMI Group Archive Trust Image  of Sir John Mills as Captain Scott in the film ‘Scott of the Antartic’ 1948 from The Voice Magazine

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