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Arthur Barraclough | ... | Himself / ... 6 episodes, 2003 |
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Arthur Halestrap | ... | Himself / ... 6 episodes, 2003 |
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Harry Patch | ... | Himself / ... 6 episodes, 2003 |
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Hubert Williams | ... | Himself / ... 6 episodes, 2003 |
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Gary Sheffield | ... | Himself - King's College London / ... 3 episodes, 2003 |
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Malcolm Brown | ... | Himself - Historian, Imperial War Museum / ... 2 episodes, 2003 |
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Taff Gillingham | ... | Himself - Military Historian 2 episodes, 2003 |
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Bill Stone | ... | Himself - Born 1900 / ... 2 episodes, 2003 |
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Documentary using computer colorized footage from World War I to give the audience the feel of how it really looked back during the war.
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Everything unknown is taken for magnificent...
Since we have so little to compare the visuals to... whereas the narrative....
If you wish to find a documentary that speaks of the suffering of the world, which visibly and glaringly surrounds us, the boys in World War I, and of confusion, passion, evil --
This is not it.....
A war without politics!! Without Junker greed! Without rape nor rotting Doughboys in the trenches... the Clean war in color... flying things and heavy iron rolling in color....
However, it's a great way to copyright public domain footage.
The Latins had a phrase for this "omne ignotum pro magnifico: Everything unknown is taken for magnificent.. and for the first time color is added to World War I -- magnificent try!
Someday I'd like to license some of the footage for my own version of the war... maybe not a commercial as producer Martin's "Greatest SAS Missions" (2004) (mini) TV Series (producer)but certainly more of the reason the French and English dreaded the subject.... The Great War...