Wellman’s 1906 polar expedition: the subject of numerousnewspaper stories and one obscure film

• Published in: Polar Research
• Main Authors: Diesen, Jan Anders, Fulton, Neil
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2007
• Subjects: Film history; polar expedition; travelogue; Wellman; Svalbard; VDP::Humanities: 000::Movie and drama: 170::Movie science: 171; Fulton; North Pole; Polar Research
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11250/145196; https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1751-8369.2007.00007.x

The following contribution, by film researchers Jan Anders Diesen and Neil Fulton, is the second piece about Walter Wellman in this issue. Whereas Capelotti et al. (this issue) focus on technical aspects of Wellman’s aborted bid for the North Pole in 1906, Diesen and Fulton look at the media hype su...