'They Shall Not Grow Old' ....Peter Jackson is Re

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'They Shall Not Grow Old' ....Peter Jackson is Remastering WWI Footage for a New Film and It Looks Amazing

I saw a coming attraction of this at the theater. Film footage of WWI colorized, HD and slowed down where necessary to make it look like
modern news footage.

I couldn’t believe what I was seeing, after viewing decades of grainy, black and white and sometimes too fast framed clips.

https://www.forces.net/news/remastering-ww1-footage-new-film

Using modern-day technology, filmmaker Peter Jackson of Lord of the Rings fame, is remastering rare World War I footage from the Imperial War Museum archives, that looks as if it was shot last week rather than 100+ years ago.

“We are not making the usual film you’d expect on the First World War – we’re making a film which shows this incredible footage in which the faces of these men just jump out at you. It’s the human beings who were actually there, who were thrust into this extraordinary situation that defined their lives in many cases.”

Creating this film took over three years to create because there was so much work involved, says Mr Lee: “I can’t even calculate how much time and effort goes into this, there were hundreds and hundreds of films to look at, the amount of time you have to spend adjusting the colour the grading, the speed of the film, removing the blemishes, frame by frame rotoscoping, adding the colour it’s a huge job.”

Jackson is combining the remastered footage with BBC interviews with veterans recorded over the decades since the end of the war, providing a unique new perspective on the 20th century’s most shocking conflict.

'They Shall Not Grow Old' was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum and the 14-18 NOW campaign to commemorate the centenary of the First World War and will be shown in cinemas across the country on 16 October.

1418NOW.org.uk

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