Orbit Magazine Nov 19

Peter Jackson, best known for directing The
Lord of the Rings trilogy, has created a new
film using original footage from Imperial
War Museums’ extensive archive, much of it
previously unseen, alongside BBC and IWM
interviews with servicemen who fought in
the conflict. Footage has been colourised,
converted to 3D and transformed with
modern production techniques to present
never before seen detail.
They Shall Not Grow Old was given its Royal
World Premiere at the BFI London Film Festival
on 16 October, attended by Peter Jackson and
the Duke of Cambridge. The simulcast included
a special post screening Q&A with Jackson,
hosted by film critic Mark Kermode. The film
was simultaneously screened in 2D and 3D to
cinemas, schools and special venues across the
UK, as well as its TV broadcast premier on BBC
Two on 11 November.
The First World War proved to be a landmark
in cinema history – the first time that the
horrors of war could be caught on camera.
Many hours of dramatic footage were filmed
on the battlefields, capturing the realities of the
conflict in remarkable and unprecedented detail.
This footage provided the public at home with
astonishing access to the frontline: The Battle of
the Somme, a documentary film produced with
the cooperation of the War Office, was seen by
an estimated 20 million Britons in its first six
weeks of release.
A documentary about World
War I with never-before-seen
footage to commemorate the
centennial of Armistice Day, and
the end of the war.
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