WW1 Footage Re-mastered

[RicInOR]

Soldiers and trenches of WWI are revealed exactly as they looked 100 years ago | Daily Mail Online

Soldiers and trenches of WWI are revealed exactly as they looked 100 years ago in staggering colourised footage transformed by [Peter Jackson]

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[Andy54Hawken]

I really like the idea...But I hope Jackson didn't muck up the "story" here , with adding "extras" and BS things that that he liked...The way he did with The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
Andy

 

[Mikej]

Personally, the colorization ruins it. Modifying the films scratches and blurriness, etc might be okay IMO. It's like getting a fine 100+ year old rifle with some dents in the stock, and a scratch or two, thin bluing in places, and sporterizing it. Surely people will like it this way though.

 

[Connor Murphy]

I really like the idea...But I hope Jackson didn't muck up the "story" here , with adding "extras" and BS things that that he liked...The way he did with The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit.
Andy

Yeah, if Frodo goes over the top that's gonna ruin it for me.

 

[Connor Murphy]

Though Tolkien was a veteran of the war to end all wars, so maybe...

 

[Dungannon]

I like it. Especially the part about no talking head historians, but audio of veterans interviewed years ago.

By the way, did you read the article at the bottom of that page on Khashoggi's murder in Turkey? Gruesome.
Turkish police search Saudi Consul's residence after recording leak | Daily Mail Online

 

[RicInOR]

Instapundit » Blog Archive » THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD: Scott Johnson of Power Line (whose grandfather immigrated to the US in 1916…

They Shall Not Grow Old

Scott Johnson of Power Line (whose grandfather immigrated to the US in 1916 from Russia and was drafted the following year and served in the Battle of Argonne Forest) attended the afternoon screening of Peter Jackson's new WWI documentary and returns impressed — at the both the film and its crowd size: "Something is happening here. Each showing of the film at the Edina [MN] AMC yesterday was sold out. The film is to be shown again on December 27 in theaters playing Fathom Events. Highly recommended."

Indeed. Read the whole thing.™

 

[RicInOR]

This is getting good press

Dec 27th in select theaters.
Fathom Events | They Shall Not Grow Old

J. CHRISTIAN ADAMS ON THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD: Peter Jackson's Masterpiece War Memorial.

Jackson's film portrays the World War I soldier as you have never seen him: in color, in high definition and with sound. They Shall Not Grow Old painstakingly cleans up the old jerky films of the Great War. . . . We journey forward to the trenches, where the rats and the corpses and the men all live as one. They eat, and live and die on top of each other, all in high definition color. Men slip into the mud and vanish forever. Brown iodine is swabbed on bleeding arms shot cleanly through by German bullets. A parade of the gassed march by with their arms on the shoulders of the man ahead. These are real people, something the old black and white films of course contained. But somehow, that medium dehumanized them. They Shall Not Grow Old brings them alive, like we have a pass to visit them in Flanders and Passchendaele. The film is a memorial to the World War I solider perhaps more profound than the Cenotaph.

You've got another chance to see it in theaters on December 27th. Highly recommended.

by Ed Driscoll