{"id":148220,"date":"2018-01-23T02:19:58","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T07:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=148220"},"modified":"2025-01-16T23:12:51","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T04:12:51","slug":"hobbit-director-peter-jackson-making-wwi-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/01\/23\/hobbit-director-peter-jackson-making-wwi-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Hobbit’ director Peter Jackson making WWI documentary"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LONDON \u2014 \u201cThe Lord of the Rings\u201d director Peter Jackson is going from Middle Earth to the Western Front, transforming grainy black-and-white footage of World War I into 3-D colour for a new documentary film.<\/p>\n

Jackson’s movie, announced Monday, is among dozens of artworks commissioned by British cultural bodies to commemorate 100 years since the final year of the 1914-18 war.<\/p>\n

The New Zealand-based director of \u201cThe Hobbit\u201d and \u201cLord of the Rings\u201d series has restored film from the Imperial War Museum using cutting-edge digital technology and hand coloring, pairing it with archive audio recollections from veterans of the conflict.<\/p>\n

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He said the aim is to close the 100-year time gap and show \u201cwhat it was like to fight in the war.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe all know what First World War footage looks like,\u201d Jackson said in comments broadcast Monday. \u201cIt’s sped-up, it’s fast, like Charlie Chaplin, grainy, jumpy, scratchy, and it immediately blocks you from actually connecting with the events on screen.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut the results we have got are absolutely unbelievable. They are way beyond what I expected.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis footage looks like it was shot in the last week or two, with high definition cameras.\u201d<\/p>\n

The film will premiere during the London Film Festival in October before being broadcast on BBC television. Every school in the U.K. will also receive a copy.<\/p>\n

The film is part of the government-backed 14-18 Now project, which has presented works by more than 200 artists over four years to remember a conflict in which 20 million people died.<\/p>\n

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Other works premiering this year include a large-scale performance piece by South African artist William Kentridge about African porters who served in the war; processions to mark the 100th anniversary of some British women winning the right to vote; and a performance celebrating wartime homing pigeons that includes birds fitted with LED lights.<\/p>\n

\u201cSlumdog Millionaire\u201d director Danny Boyle \u2014 who helmed the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony \u2014 will create a mass-participation work to be performed on the anniversary of the Nov. 11, 1918, armistice that ended the war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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