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* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: They provide entertainment. One smallish penguin somehow flaps its way up onto a ship and stays there for two days. A flock of penguins leap out of the water and greet a ship. Sailors marvel at the amount of fish that emperor penguins eat.
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''The Secret Land'' is a 1948 documentary feature produced by Orville O. Dull.
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''The Secret Land'' is a 1948 documentary feature produced by Orville O. Dull.
Dull and released by [[Creator/MetroGoldwynMayer MGM]].
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Three different narrators--Creator/RobertMontgomery, Robert Taylor, and Van Heflin--narrate each of the three prongs of the expedition. In RealLife Operation Highjump has attracted a lot of interest from the TinfoilHat brigade, with a lot of loopy theories about a Nazi base at the South Pole.
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Three different narrators--Creator/RobertMontgomery, Robert Taylor, Creator/RobertTaylor, and Van Heflin--narrate each of the three prongs of the expedition. In RealLife Operation Highjump has attracted a lot of interest from the TinfoilHat brigade, with a lot of loopy theories about a Nazi base at the South Pole.
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* {{Dramatization}}: "For brevity, the sequence of events has occasionally been rearranged." Parts dramatized after the fact include an amazingly awkward, wooden conference between Byrd and Admiral Chester Nimitz, some damage control efforts aboard the ship, and Byrd's difficult flight to the Pole and back (including the EmergencyCargoDump).
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* {{Dramatization}}: "For brevity, the sequence of events has occasionally been rearranged." Parts dramatized after the fact include an amazingly awkward, wooden conference between Byrd and Admiral Chester Nimitz, some damage control efforts aboard the ship, ships, and Byrd's difficult flight to the Pole and back (including the EmergencyCargoDump).
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* HiroshimaAsAUnitOfMeasure: The area of the Antarctic interior that Byrd's planes photographed is said to be larger than California, Arizona, and Texas combined.
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* NatureDocumentary: Antarctica, with its stark beauty and its lack of hospitality to man. Compare ''Film/EncountersAtTheEndOfTheWorld'', a Creator/WernerHerzog documentary with a far different mood.
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* {{Dramatization}}: "For brevity, the sequence of events has occasionally been rearranged." Parts dramatized after the fact include an amazingly awkward, wooden conference between Byrd and Admiral Chester Nimitz, some damage control efforts aboard the ship, and Byrd's difficult flight to the Pole and back (including the EmergencyCargoDump).
* EmergencyCargoDump: Admiral Byrd's plane loses one of its two engines on the way back to from the South Pole. As a consequence the plane starts rapidly losing altitude. Byrd and his men have to chuck out everything except for their exposed film, and they barely manage to keep the plane in the air until they get back.
* EmergencyCargoDump: Admiral Byrd's plane loses one of its two engines on the way back to from the South Pole. As a consequence the plane starts rapidly losing altitude. Byrd and his men have to chuck out everything except for their exposed film, and they barely manage to keep the plane in the air until they get back.
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* MysteriousAntarctica: Mapping and photographing the Antarctic when much of it was still mysterious. The film documents the discovery of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunger_Hills Bunger Hills]], an area strangely free of ice with bare hills and liquid lakes. The lack of ice in the Bunger Hills has never been scientifically explained.
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* InitiationCeremony: The "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line-crossing_ceremony shellback ceremony]]", in which "polliwogs" become shellbacks upon crossing the Equator for the first time. It involves much silliness, including kissing the belly of a fat sailor dressed up as King Neptune.
* MysteriousAntarctica: Mapping and photographing the Antarctic when much of it was still mysterious. The film documents the discovery of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunger_Hills Bunger Hills]], an area strangely free of ice with bare hills and liquid lakes. The lack of ice in the Bunger Hills has never been scientificallyexplained.explained.
* SeaStories: Most of the movie deals with the challenges of the naval vessels trying to make their way to the Antarctic coast and avoid being crushed in the ice.
* MysteriousAntarctica: Mapping and photographing the Antarctic when much of it was still mysterious. The film documents the discovery of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunger_Hills Bunger Hills]], an area strangely free of ice with bare hills and liquid lakes. The lack of ice in the Bunger Hills has never been scientifically
* SeaStories: Most of the movie deals with the challenges of the naval vessels trying to make their way to the Antarctic coast and avoid being crushed in the ice.
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''The Secret Land'' is a 1948 documentary feature produced by Orville O. Dull.
It is a record of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Highjump Operation Highjump]], a massive U.S. Navy expedition to UsefulNotes/{{Antarctica}} in 1946-47. The expedition, led by famed polar explorer Richard E. Byrd, brought 13 ships and 4700 men to the Antarctic, in three separate squadrons, devoted to exploring and surveying three different areas of the continent. The fleet battles the myriad difficulties of the Antarctic environment, including the high winds of the interior, but worst of all the massive ice floes that threaten to crush Byrd's ships. Tragedy also strikes when a plane on a surveying mission disappears in bad weather.
Three different narrators--Creator/RobertMontgomery, Robert Taylor, and Van Heflin--narrate each of the three prongs of the expedition. In RealLife Operation Highjump has attracted a lot of interest from the TinfoilHat brigade, with a lot of loopy theories about a Nazi base at the South Pole.
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* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: They provide entertainment. One smallish penguin somehow flaps its way up onto a ship and stays there for two days. A flock of penguins leap out of the water and greet a ship. Sailors marvel at the amount of fish that emperor penguins eat.
* MysteriousAntarctica: Mapping and photographing the Antarctic when much of it was still mysterious. The film documents the discovery of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunger_Hills Bunger Hills]], an area strangely free of ice with bare hills and liquid lakes. The lack of ice in the Bunger Hills has never been scientifically explained.
It is a record of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Highjump Operation Highjump]], a massive U.S. Navy expedition to UsefulNotes/{{Antarctica}} in 1946-47. The expedition, led by famed polar explorer Richard E. Byrd, brought 13 ships and 4700 men to the Antarctic, in three separate squadrons, devoted to exploring and surveying three different areas of the continent. The fleet battles the myriad difficulties of the Antarctic environment, including the high winds of the interior, but worst of all the massive ice floes that threaten to crush Byrd's ships. Tragedy also strikes when a plane on a surveying mission disappears in bad weather.
Three different narrators--Creator/RobertMontgomery, Robert Taylor, and Van Heflin--narrate each of the three prongs of the expedition. In RealLife Operation Highjump has attracted a lot of interest from the TinfoilHat brigade, with a lot of loopy theories about a Nazi base at the South Pole.
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* EverythingsBetterWithPenguins: They provide entertainment. One smallish penguin somehow flaps its way up onto a ship and stays there for two days. A flock of penguins leap out of the water and greet a ship. Sailors marvel at the amount of fish that emperor penguins eat.
* MysteriousAntarctica: Mapping and photographing the Antarctic when much of it was still mysterious. The film documents the discovery of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunger_Hills Bunger Hills]], an area strangely free of ice with bare hills and liquid lakes. The lack of ice in the Bunger Hills has never been scientifically explained.
