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They Shall Not Grow Old: Directed by Peter Jackson. With Thomas Adlam, William Argent, John Ashby, Attwood. A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war.
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They Shall Not Grow Old is a 2018 documentary film directed and produced by Peter Jackson. It was created using footage of the First World War held by the British Imperial War Museum (IWM), most of which was previously unseen, and all of which was over 100 years old by the time of the film's release. Much of the footage was colourised and ...
Using state-of-the-art technology and materials from the BBC and Imperial War Museum, filmmaker Peter Jackson allows the story of World War I to be told by the men who were there.
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- In The Trenches
- Journey by Tank
- The Power of The Photograph
- The Horrors of War
- Remembering The Past as It Happened
Jackson said he used “computer power to erase the technical limitations” of the 100-year-old footage to “see and hear the Great War as they experienced it”, and the mastered images pull the viewer firmly into the picture.
Using audio clips from men who had served in the war was a vital part of the film. Jackson said: “I wanted to reach through the fog of time and pull these men into the modern world, so they can regain their humanity once more – rather than be seen only as Charlie Chaplin-type figures in the vintage archive film.”
Grading colour into the images often makes the pictures far more arresting. This one, in particular, seems more haunting when made “real” – the soldier smoking the cigarette really seems to lock eyes with the viewer.
Jackson – who’s great grandfather served in the army – said he was struck by the “pointless” nature of war while making his film: “Part of my fascination with the First World War is that it was a pointless war in that sense. Because it was a pointless war, it is all about the people who were in it. How did these people actually cope with this thing...
This final shot, when in colour, seems to be a comment on the loss of innocence, as a small child holding a white cat is starkly juxtaposed against the troop of soldiers in khaki. “It’s not the story of the war. It’s the story of the human experience of fighting in the war,” Jackson said of his film. They Shall Not Grow Old will be released in cine...
A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of Armistice Day, and the end of the war.
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