THE TERRA NOVA

Rights Information
Year
1913
Reference
F1547
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1913
Reference
F1547
Media type
Moving image
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Newsreel
Duration
0:01:24

Newsreel footage of the arrival of the ship Terra Nova to Lyttelton. Shots of the Cathedral and people attending the Memorial Service. Includes earlier footage and stills of Captain Robert Falcon Scott and ship leaving Lyttelton on the British Antarctic Expedition 1910.

0 ft. “The Terra Nova”
4 ft. “The nation mourns the loss of British heroes”
22 ft. Crowd on board Terra Nova - Scott in foreground in peaked cap - sailors, ships captain, civilians (May be occasion when the Terra Nova left Port Lyttelton for Antarctica).
37 ft. Still photograph of Terra Nova, leaving? Lyttelton 1910.
47 ft. “Captain Scott”
51 ft. Portrait of Scott.
63 ft. “We bow to the will of Providence”
69 ft. “The 'Terra Nova' arrives at Lyttelton Feb. 12th 1913”
76 ft. Pan across ship and people at wharf.
87 ft. Tilt shot of masts and rigging, showing flag at half mast.
98 ft. “Memorial service Christchurch. Cathedral Feb. 13th”
102 ft. Door of Cathedral, people entering church.
127 ft. End.