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They Shall Not Grow Old

Peter Jackson has been a Great War "fan" for years. He commissioned a bespoke army from the Perry Brothers, and owns a replica tank, I believe.

This project involved researching a huge number of films of the time, weaving clips into a narrative, adding audio, and colourising the whole thing because film-makers of the time only had B&W stock and no sound recording.

According to this review (4/5) it's a very successful project. The film will be released on Armistice Day.

I think we had a thread on this already - but it does look very intriguing, and very cool to see them put so much effort into restoring film like this. Looks almost unreal when you see WW1 as people would have seen it.

Peter Jackson is a massive WW1 nut. If you haven't seen the company he helped fund to restore and build (new, using proper techniques from WW1 blueprints...) WW1 combat aircraft - The Vintage Aviator, you're in for a treat.


They also produce "new" engines from the original blueprints, prop guns for collectors and builders of WW1 planes. They partake heavily in the WW1 air combat museum shows in New Zealand. While they didn't produce all of them, it's nothing short of amazing seeing a flight of Fokker Dr. I's...




All the more bizarre because we have more WW1 aircraft of certain types flying than we do their later WW2 successors.