The director of 'Lord of the Rings' makes World War I footage come alive The film begins with basic training footage, in black and white, building to the moment when the soldiers go to the Western Front.
The director of 'Lord of the Rings' makes World War I footage come alive on Business Standard. The film begins with basic training footage, in black and white, building to the moment when the soldiers go to the Western Front.
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» The director restored archival combat film to
pristine clarity for “They Shall Not Grow Old.”
As the director of elaborate fantasy epics like the “Lord of the Rings” and “Hobbit” trilogies, Peter Jackson has become known for meticulous attention to detail. Now he has put the same amount of care into making a documentary. With “They Shall Not Grow Old,” Jackson has applied new technology to century-old World War I footage to create a vivid, you-are-there feeling that puts real faces front and center and allows us to hear their stories in their own words. The documentary, which will screen nationwide Dec. 17 and Dec. 27, concentrates on the experiences of British soldiers as revealed in footage from the archives of the Imperial War Museum. Jackson and his team have digitally restored the footage, adjusted its frame rate, colorized it and converted it to 3-D. They chose not to add a host or title cards. Instead, veterans of the war “narrate” — that is, the filmmakers culled their commentary from hundreds of hours of BBC interviews recorded in the 1960s and ’70s. The result is a transformation that is nothing less than visually astonishing.
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