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Every now and then something comes along that shows us how amazing and how far technology has come. Take a look at how director Sir Peter Jackson created a stunning new 90-minute documentary about the First World War by taking jerky black and white footage, sharpening it up and converting it to full colour.
I saw a clip of yesterday and will definitely try and see the full film when it is released, I was blown away and whereas black and white is still very relevant when it comes to WW1 footage adding such realistic colour really, for me, made the whole viewing experience more poignant.
I hoping there will be a documentary on how they did it.

 
If you like seeing images 'coloured in' have a look at Marina Amaral's book (and Twitter feed).

https://twitter.com/x/status/1027511860445229057

As for the actual OP, the small clips look at bit too processed to me, looking a bit more CGI than real film sadly but they are very small snippets so it's hard to judge what the final result will look like. WWI stuff is interesting though so hopefully it'll be a good docu.
 
Looks very interesting. Most striking thing to me is the sound, I've seen photos in colour and black & white film clips but they are almost always silent.

To hear laughing and singing / chanting really brings it home
 
There’s a viewing for this next Tuesday at a local cinema, me and a friend are off to see it if he can rearrange work commitments, it does indeed look brilliant.
 
It is only showing for 1 day and seems to be on everywhere and fully booked at my preferred local boutique cinema, so I have booked into the 6pm showing at Tamworth!
 
MonkeyMan said:
Looks very interesting. Most striking thing to me is the sound, I've seen photos in colour and black & white film clips but they are almost always silent.

To hear laughing and singing / chanting really brings it home
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They have also sorted the frame rates as well.
 
Same words went through my head that go through every time. Brings it home even more with the colour and sound. Would love to see the whole thing but can't find a showing anywhere near me.

Poor ********.
 
Saw some of this on the TV last night, absolutely fantastic work. The footage is as good if not better than some of the best WW2 colour footage. Hopefully this technique could be used on other events to preserve them forever.
 
MonkeyMan said:
Looks very interesting. Most striking thing to me is the sound, I've seen photos in colour and black & white film clips but they are almost always silent.

To hear laughing and singing / chanting really brings it home
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I've just watched an interview with Peter Jackson on the BBC website and he describes how they used lip-readers to try and work out what some of the people in the original clips were saying (or best guesses), then used actors to speak the words.
 
Kronos said:
Every now and then something comes along that shows us how amazing and how far technology has come. Take a look at how director Sir Peter Jackson created a stunning new 90-minute documentary about the First World War by taking jerky black and white footage, sharpening it up and converting it to full colour.
I saw a clip of yesterday and will definitely try and see the full film when it is released, I was blown away and whereas black and white is still very relevant when it comes to WW1 footage adding such realistic colour really, for me, made the whole viewing experience more poignant.
I hoping there will be a documentary on how they did it.
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Just down my street, wow that looks so good thanks for sharing this :)
 
Not that film, but in a similar ballpark, was a Discovery-History documentary that I recorded some weeks ago for my elder son, a WW1 buff who lives in Germany, and will be over this month.
It’s called “The Battle of the Ancre, and Advance of the Tanks”, and was originally filmed in 1916.
The documentary was entitled “How did they do it” or “How was it done”, it showed how film restorers went frame by frame, removing imperfections, and inserting proper colours and buttons and badges to the uniforms of the men, how careful examination revealed soldiers chopping up lumps of meat with axes, this was originally thought to be chopping wood.
I don’t know if it would still be available, I just checked it on my Sky Box, and it said, “recorded at 2.30 p.m. Saturday 4th.”
I have no idea of which month though, August? September?
 
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