They shall not grow old

irishrover99

On bbc2 now.
Directed by Peter Jackson.
Amazingly remastered beyond any other WW1 footage.
Nearly 4K quality.

Fr Tod Umptious

irishrover99 wrote: »

On bbc2 now.
Directed by Peter Jackson.
Amazingly remastered beyond any other WW1 footage.
Nearly 4K quality.

Watched it

Thought it was brilliantly made.

I thought the way they reverted to black and white old style newsreel when showing the footage of after 11/11/1918 was really well done.

It highlighted the war itself as the main piece of the show.

they way this was achieved was excellent.

it's not just that they colourised the old footage - they also used modern tech to interpolate the frames to bring it up to 24 frames a second which is the standard for movies, which removed the jerkiness.

the transition shot where they moved from black and white jerky to smooth colour was cool.

it's definitely not 4k resolution tho as the source material wasn't anything near that - even though it's upscaled.

also the way that the story is told from the point of view of the experience of the soldier from signing up and then on to the battlefield, the food they ate, making tea from the hot machine gun barrel etc instead of history lesson was also excellently achieved.

well worth a viewing.

BaZmO*

Watched over Christmas and thought it was fantastic.

glasso wrote: »

the transition shot where they moved from black and white jerky to smooth colour was cool.

Loved that part. Very Wizard of Oz like.

valoren

My favourite part was when one of the English soldiers was talking to one of the Germans who got captured and who in competent english mentioned that he used to work in the Savoy in London. There was a depressing sense of them both empathizing with each other and them wondering why the **** they were even in this situation to begin with.

Agricola

Saw it the other night. Really brings home the absolute horror of WW1.

endacl

irishrover99 wrote: »

On bbc2 now.
Directed by Peter Jazckson.
Amazingly remastered beyond any other WW1 footage.
Nearly 4K quality.

What is your understanding of ‘4K quality’?

Amazing piece of work.

gidget

I actually bought the DVD as i had missed it the first time round.

The part that stuck out for me was seeing the explosion going off when they were riding the horses. The sounds coming from the horse in pain still haunts me.

gidget

gidget wrote: »

I actually bought the DVD as i had missed it the first time round.

The part that stuck out for me was seeing the explosion going off when they were riding the horses. The sounds coming from the horse in pain still haunts me.

they created and added in all the sound effects (apart from the interviews with veterans which dates from the 60's I think).

there was no sound with the original footage.

Turbulent Bill

glasso wrote: »

it's not just that they colourised the old footage - they also used modern tech to interpolate the frames to bring it up to 24 frames a second which is the standard for movies, which removed the jerkiness.

The combination of both of these was genius. Some of the colourised footage on other programmes (usually from WW2) looks gimmicky; it still stutters and looks 'old'. Smoothing the film as well as colouring it makes it much more immediate, really hammers home the impact.

Editing is brilliant too.

Joe_ Public

Read somewhere that this took years to make, basically putting it together piece by piece. Matching the images and footage to the voiceovers was truly the work of genius. Not sure the last time a film/documentary moved me in such a powerfully visceral way as this one.

Kat1170

They used lip-readers to work out what the soldiers were saying.
Then used details like their collar badges to figure out the region the company, battalion or brigade most likely came from.
They then used actors from these regions to match the accents to the original film.

Harry Palmr

Just spotted that WB released this to cinemas in the USA and it's been a bit of a hit. $13m which for a project of this nature is terrific.

Its being shown again on BBC Two on February 19th at 12.15 am.Set your Sky Plus,everyone as this is unmissable!

Uncharted

zorro2566 wrote: »

Its being shown again on BBC Two on February 19th at 12.15 am.Set your Sky Plus,everyone as this is unmissable!

Thanks for the heads up.

gandalf

Cheers I've only seen half of this so I'll record it now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_cSXfKSRKz4

ArmaniJeanss

zorro2566 wrote: »

Its being shown again on BBC Two on February 19th at 12.15 am.Set your Sky Plus,everyone as this is unmissable!

Tonight.

siblers

Anyone else find it difficult trying to listen to the narration/people who were interviewed? the background noise at times is very loud and the quality of the interview footage is understandabley not that great, so I found myself having to focus really hard to take in what those people were saying

It's a superb documentary though, Peter Jackson and his crew deserve every bit of credit given to them