Posted on 10/09/2018 6:30:54 PM PDT by Kriggerel
Silent film footage from World War One has been painstakingly restored for a new documentary by Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson.
The archive footage has been combined with original interviews with soldiers who fought in the war.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...
I will very much like to see this.
I was modestly involved in the WWI Museum that was built when the Liberty Memorial was restored and upgraded. It is Kansas City for those that would like to see banners, howitzers, uniforms, and one of the greatest memorabilia from US participation. It is the largest WWI Memorial and Museum in the United States if not the western hemisphere.
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11 November (Veterans Day) will be the 100th Anniversary of the end of WWI.
The Armistice was signed at 11:11 on 11/11, 1918.
If you are interested in WWI, look for the Great War Series on YouTube. A 10-minute show on each week of WWI, 100 years later. Obviously the series is getting close to its conclusion, but all of the episodes are available to watch. The same guy is doing WWII, now into its 6th week.
I don’t know if I can bear to see it, knowing a lot of the people I’m seeing will die horrible deaths.
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Yet he had many top 100 singles and a couple top ten.
He is also the only actor who got three Oscars for supporting actor.
Oh, me too.
I can’t seem to find anything beyond information about the UK showings of the film, at the moment. I’m waiting to hear details about the North American release. Your guess is as good as mine.
I will be making a special trip to the Lt. Col. John McCrae birthplace museum for the 100th Anniversary of the armistice. It seems appropriate.
http://guelphmuseums.ca/venue/mccrae-house/
Will definitely keep an eye out,
Sounds very Interesting.
That is when it took effect, not signed.
We’re one of the first generations of humans who are able to see our ancestors, even those who died before we were born, on film. IMHO, it’s a precious gift. It wasn’t that long ago that only still photos were available. Before that, for centuries if not millenia, the only record of those who came before were spoken/written accounts and maybe a drawing, painting or statue, and that only if you were wealthy or powerful.
You can “meet” people in a fashion, who were dead before you were born. Get to know them if only in a small way. It’s kind of incredible. It makes their lives a little more for us than defined only by their deaths.
My late maternal Grandfather was an Infantryman in the 42th (Rainbow) Infantry Division in the trenches in France. Wounded, he came home to establish and operate a hardware store in Wisconsin and live into his 80s.
He taught me a lot and was a wonderful Grandpa!
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