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The dog teams pull sleds across crevasses during the Antarctic Expedition.

U.S. Navy Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's Antarctic Expedition. The camp area is called as 'Little America'. Doctor Laurence Gould establishes emergency depots for preparations of the Polar flight's emergency landings. The dog teams pull sleds across crevasses. An ill dog named 'Spy' finds it's way to join the team. Footsteps of the sled dog on snow. The dogs pull the sleds and the men walk with them.

Location: Antarctica
Date: 1928
Duration: 5 min 13 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054622
The Floyd Bennett plane being readied for Polar flight during the Antarctic Expedition.

Plane being readied for Polar flight during U.S. Navy Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's Antarctic Expedition. The camp area is called as 'Little America'. The Floyd Bennett plane being prepared. Men enter through a hole in the snow-block wall constructed around the aircraft. The giant plane being assembled. The snow wall being broken. The engine of the aircraft roars. Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd checks his sextant and sun compass.

Location: Antarctica
Date: 1928
Duration: 2 min 38 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054623
The Floyd Bennett aircraft takes off for the Polar flight and reaches the south pole during the Antarctic Expedition.

U.S. Navy Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's Antarctic Expedition. The Floyd Bennett aircraft is readied for the Polar flight. The aircraft being loaded. Everything being weighed before loading. Men stand near the plane. 'Byrd's Antarctic Expedition' written on the aircraft. Blizzard sweeps down Doctor Laurence Gould's camp at Queen Maude Mountains. Admiral Byrd awaits for seven days due to the blizzard. Admiral Byrd seated at his desk and goes through several notes. Radio operator flashes the message from Gould's camp that the weather is clear. The Floyd Bennett aircraft takes off for the Polar flight. Admiral Byrd takes United States flag with him. Men in the camp area wave goodbye. The camp area is called as 'Little America'. Radio operator and several other men gather around the radio. The aircraft struggles and abandons some of the food. They receive the instructions to avoid Heiberg glacier. Admiral Byrd makes several calculations and decides that the aircraft is flying near South Pole. Aerial view of mountain ranges. The aircraft reaches South Pole. Men radio that the South Pole has been reached. The men check the gasoline for the flight back towards the camp area. The aircraft lands at the camp area. Men gather to meet Admiral Byrd.

Location: Antarctica
Date: 1928
Duration: 17 min 55 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054625
Sailing vessel 'City Of New York' arrives as men leave the area after the Antarctic Expedition.

United States Navy Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd's Antarctic Expedition. Sled dogs in view. The radio operator receives the message about the arrival of the sailing vessel 'City Of New York'. They receive the news about the vessel being stuck in the ice pack. The 'City Of New York' anchors at the barrier ice. Admiral Byrd's dog 'Igloo' sits on the snow. The men take their belongings and board the vessel. Smoke rises up from the smokestack of the vessel. The men leave the camp area named 'Little America'. A penguin in view. The men take a last look at the camp area as they leave after the expedition is over.

Location: Antarctica
Date: 1928
Duration: 4 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675054626
Byrd Expedition members raise barricades and build shelters in Little America, Antarctica.

Members of the Byrd Expedition to Antarctica build the Little America Base camp including shelters and barricades against the strong icy winds. A man hits a stick on a pan to signal meal time. Men eat and drink at a table in the enclosure. A man takes a picture. Another one puts a flag in the ice sheet. Men dig in the snow with shovels. They raise tall planks to build a cabin. Piles of boxes. Men work as a blizzard sweeps over the ice sheet. A man completes the roof with planks. Radio towers on the ice.

Location: Little America Antarctica
Date: 1929
Duration: 2 min 25 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675020815
Operation Deep Freeze in Antarctica. Expedition to Little America, led by Admiral Richard E. Byrd

View of Icebreaker USS Edisto (AGB-2) underway in Antarctic waters. View of ice breaking in front of the ship and penquins swimming. View of cargo ship, USS Arneb (AKA-56), with heavy smoke pouring from stack. Penquins waddling about on the ice. Explorers disembarking from ship via long gangway to the ice. Group digging hole in ice. Views of Little America buildings and supplies left from previous expeditions. Admiral Byrd arrives by helicopter and presides over flag-raising ceremony for Little America II. Admiral Richard E. Byrd,Paul Siple, Major Murray Wiener USAF, and IGY representative Edward Goodall salute the flag.

Location: Little America Antarctica
Date: 1955
Duration: 1 min 11 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675056004
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