During the outward journey the ship became frozen is sea ice and also had to depart more rapidly than originally intended, having deposited the shore party who were to stay through the Antarctic winter.
The film was also shown on a number of occasions as part of public events which included a talk from Sir Vivian Fuchs and which raised private donations towards the costs of the expedition.
His next film, Oxford, made in 1956, was commissioned by the Central Office of Information as part of their efforts to attract overseas students.
This was followed by There Was a Door (1957), which looked at the care of the severely learning disabled and was sponsored by the Manchester Regional Hospital Board.
I Do - And I Understand (1964) was on behalf of the Nuffield Maths Project and won a Society of Film and Television Arts (SFTA, the predecessor to BAFTA) award.
1967 also saw the making of Indus Waters sponsored by The World Bank and with original music composed by Wilfred Joseph.
The film looked at a project undertaken under an Indo-Pakistani treaty to mutually harness the waters of the Indus for agriculture.
[1] In 1969, rejoining Greenpark Films, Williams made The Taking Mood for BP New Zealand, another small scale dramatic piece.
The film exposed the consequences of industrialization, particularly with regard to pollution, though coming prior to the identification of global warming, its focus is more on the visual impact and damage to wildlife and the lived environment.
However, in his last significant budget film, The Shetland Experience, Williams worked under the sponsorship of the Sullom Voe Association to record the history, nature and culture of Shetland as the oil began to come ashore to Sullom Voe Terminal.
The film was Oscar-nominated and Williams was able to attend the Oscar ceremony in Los Angeles for the only time.
These include The Science of Art (1976) for Winsor & Newton, The Chemistry of India (1979) for ICI, Army Cadet (1980) and an army recruitment film, South East Pipeline (1982) for Esso, Fair Wear and Tear (1982) for BP, Diamond Day (1982) for De Beers, Configuration Management (1985) and Replenishment at Sea (1986) for the UK Armed Forces.
During the making of the film Williams suffered from (temporary) ill health which was to bring to a close his film-making career at the age of 62.