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For what it’s worth
Amazon is selling regular and blu-ray DVDs of this
And I must admit—when we watch the trailers which are still playing past the dates it actually was in the theaters I can’t help but notice how many men had such really bad teeth
One example of how times have changed since the early 1900s and today
I just learned it's coming to a local theater later this month, and I'm really looking forward to watching it.
Peter Jackson has always been on the digital cutting edge. I read a review about the making of this picture, and Jackson employed several expert lip readers to provide the spoken dialog that's heard in the movie and voice actors provided the actual speech.
All the film that was taken during the war came from hand-cranked cameras, so the footage varied from 10 to 16 frames per second. Modern film speed is 24 fps. Jackson's crew created a digital model that equalized the speed of all the footage, so we are not only seeing all the objects move, we are seeing them move at their actual speed.
All the voice-over commentary came from either old recordings or writings of the people who were actually there and lived through the war.
So we not only get to see how the war actually looked, we get to hear the words the soldiers spoke when they were filmed.
This isn't a documentary. It's an entirely new way of re-working old silent film.
it makes me wonder how an old silent blockbuster of the distant past, like D.W. Griffith's "Intolerance", a truly epic scale production, would do at the box office these days if given similar treatment. Or Howard Hughes' original silent version of "Hell's Angels", which featured some of the most spectacular arial photography ever filmed.
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