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Post by wannabe on Sept 28, 2018 9:17:42 GMT
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Post by Zed. on Sept 28, 2018 10:57:13 GMT
I'd heard about this a while ago, definately one for the list  Rich. |
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Post by atlex on Sept 28, 2018 23:00:48 GMT
4 great-uncles dead in the somme and ypres, one of their brothers wounded by gas attack, my great-grandfather, and I'm sure a fair few here have a similar connection, or more, given the generations. I'll keep an eye out for this.
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Post by boringgit on Sept 30, 2018 17:57:46 GMT
Not heard of this. Will definitely check it out. WW1 facsinates me and i have visited many of the sites over in Belgium.
Shameless plug, my father in law is walking 100 miles for 100 years from Ypres and finishing by marching down the cenotaph on 11/11 with lots of other ex servicemen. May have to rattle the collection tin on here closer to the time. :-)
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Post by martiny on Oct 1, 2018 16:24:03 GMT
Hooray for restoring old footage even if I'm not so sure about the value of colourising it.
Do you know the old BBC series "The Great War" made for the 50th anniversary? There's a low-rez version on YouTube. Even I was too young to see it first time, but I was amazed when I saw it both because of the sheer quantity of contemporary footage they showed and also because it was so clearly the model for "The World At War" a decade later.
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Post by wannabe on Oct 21, 2018 11:46:27 GMT
Well, saw this - 'twas good  The colourisation does seem to make it more 'real', and the restoration only occasionally looks a little heavy-handed (you know, like when you see airbrushed movie promo posters and the people look unreal lol). It left me slightly conflicted/confused at the end of it TBH - Peter Jackson is obviously no fan of war, and many of the snippets from interviews used in the film come across as 'in the end we weren't really sure what we were fighting for', so I guess I am trying to reconcile the 'glamourous' historical portrayal of valiant chaps fighting for King and Country against the portrayal in this of blokes getting stuck in (and many not coming home) for reasons they weren't exactly clear on. I shall have to ponder some more, I think, as it's Remembrance Day soon and I would like things to be clear in my head. I guess Remembrance Day is not just about WW1, though, it's about all those lost in all fighting. |
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Post by martiny on Oct 22, 2018 11:48:38 GMT
I believe it's to be shown on TV on Remembrance Day.
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le sigh