A few months back, my friend and I went to see a collection of war footage accompanied live by a BBC musician, and I don’t exaggerate: the effect was magical. With dynamic sound effects and voiceovers, the images were brought to life and the characters suddenly became real people who spoke, thought and moved. Using the right tools, even exceptionally rare and alienated footage can be brought right up to the modern day, and that’s what I’m most looking forward to in They Shall Not Grow Old.
Peter Jackson, king of cinematic epics and master of impossible feats, has achieved something pretty extraordinary on his new documentary feature – it seems like the sky’s the limit for the visionary director and producer. Taking 100-year-old archived footage from the BBC and Imperial War Museum’s archives, he and his production team have remastered the collected footage in spectacular color, converting it to 3D to show the First World War as it would have been seen.
Source: Destructoid Powerful new trailer for Peter Jackson’s WWI documentary, They Shall Not Grow Old