Antarctica footage from 1930s, ’70s now online

Fogler Library has added three films about Antarctica to its YouTube channel.

Two of the films are National Science Foundation productions from 1975 and 1978. These include shots of University of Maine faculty members George Denton and Harold W. Borns Jr., among the many featured researchers.

The third film has silent footage taken by Paramount photographer John L. Herrmann in the 1930s during Richard E. Byrd’s second expedition, with narration by Borns.