![]() ![]() And the filmmakers included in this collection represent several nationalities, including Americans. The project includes footage from home movies, advertisements, newsreels and other unofficial films. They are given that name because they weren’t created to be entertainment, art or propaganda – they were never meant to stand the test of time. These raw movies aren’t called ephemeral because they may soon not exist (though without proper conservation, they won’t). Some of the 50 films were home movies, others were donated by families of the filmmakers who were curious to know what was on the film, but lacked the resources to actually watch it. The project is pulling together films that focus on the rise of Nazism and its role in Jewish and non-Jewish life in Austria. ![]() This film and the others embedded here are just a selection of the 50 movies that make up the “ Ephemeral Films Project: National Socialism in Austria”, a collaboration of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, the Austrian Film Museum and the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute. 'They Shall Not Grow Old' was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum and the 14-18 NOW campaign to commemorate the centenary of the First World War and will be shown in cinemas across the country on 16 October.Though these chilling images set the ideal opening scene for a Hollywood-produced drama, they were actually shot in 1938 by an amateur cameraman. "You get a multiplicity of different perspectives from different people who did so many amazing things that I think actually it’s all these things combining that really bring home such a strong impression of how it was like to actually fight and be involved in the First World War." “Sometimes you view battles in terms of statistics, in terms of the big moments, but actually this really gave a human dimension to the conflict, particularly by using the interviews from 'The Great War' series. The footage is transformed from black and white to colour (Picture: WingNut Films with Peter Jackson).Ĭreating this film took over three years to create because there was so much work involved, says Mr Lee: “I can’t even calculate how much time and effort goes into this, there were hundreds and hundreds of films to look at, the amount of time you have to spend adjusting the colour the grading, the speed of the film, removing the blemishes, frame by frame rotoscoping, adding the colour it’s a huge job.”Ī copy of the film will be sent to every secondary school in the UK, making the archives of the IWM accessible to younger generations and help them see what life was like for the soldiers. The director and his team at WingNut Films listened to over 600 hours of audio interviews from veterans of the First World War and watched over 100 hours of footage to make the film in 2D and 3D, focusing on the experiences of men rather than strategies of war. "There is a mine explosion in one of the shots, a big mine goes up and my Grandfather was about 100 yards on the other side of the mine at that exact moment, so I think, well I’m actually looking at something my grandfather saw, you know the same thing, I’m actually seeing what he saw 100 years ago.” “As I was going through the footage I was acutely aware that this must have been how he felt and these are the sort of sights that he was seeing. In an interview with RATED, the director said he was aware throughout the making of the film that he was getting an insight into what his Grandfather’s experience may have been like. The documentary ‘They Shall Not Grow Old’ is dedicated to Peter’s grandfather William John Jackson who fought in the conflict while serving in the 2nd Battalion South Wales Borderers - which later amalgamated with the Welsh Regiment to form the Royal Regiment of Wales. ![]()
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