Sunday 29th October 1911, Working With Ponting And His Cinematograph
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Twentieth Sunday after Trinity. Up at 5 to write and read, and at 10 we had Church service. After this I took Nobby out for exercise and then Captain Scott and Petty Officer Evans, Crean and I went through various sledging and camping scenes for Ponting on the cinematograph. We were at it for about two hours and he got 700 ft of film.
We were taken first in harness drawing our sledge load between bergs. Then along another berg to a patch of snow where we unharnessed and pitched camp. We set the tent, filled the cooker, passed everything in to the tent and then got in ourselves.
Then we had striking camp and packing up and getting under way and then we had finally a length of sledge hauling on ski.
The whole series with the scenes in the tent, which we did the other day, ought to be awfully good, I think, as there is no humbug about them at all ; they are all straight forward photos of what we do every day on trek, only they can’t possibly be taken under those conditions.
We were late in lunching after this, and then I worked out my three Emperor Penguins’ eggs which had well formed chicks in them of three different sizes, fairly young, but a good deal older than I had ever expected, which is all the better for my work.
I got these well pickled for future work. As they are quite unique and probably the most primitive embryos of this most primitive bird at present living on the earth they may turn out to be interesting. They were obtained under difficulties too, and won’t be got again in a hurry, I think, unless Amundsen has an Emperor rookery in his Bay of Whales during the winter.
Our departure on the southern journey is postponed for a day as the two days at Hut Point put everyone back in their final arrangements. So we start on Wednesday. I wrote a few letters in the evening and finished off the eggs.
