They Shall Not Grow Old, Peter Jackson’s First World War archive footage film, will premiere across the UK in October. Jackson created the film in 3D, remastering 100-year-old footage from the Imperial War Museum’s vast archives using modern production techniques to present never-before-seen detail. 

Peter Jackson’s First World War archive footage film to premiere across UK 

By Lucy Mapstone
via the INDEPENDENT newspaper (UK) web site

Peter Jackson’s new First World War film, comprised of restored archive footage that has been colourised, will get its world premiere during the BFI London Film Festival.

The project has been newly-titled They Shall Not Grow Old and will air at the event in October – and simultaneously in cinemas across the UK – to mark the First World War’s centenary.

The Lord Of The Rings and The Hobbit film-maker, who has won three Oscars, has created the film in 3D, remastering 100-year-old footage from the Imperial War Museum’s vast archives using modern production techniques to present never-before-seen detail.

Jackson said: “I wanted to reach through the fog of time and pull these men into the modern world, so they can regain their humanity once more – rather than be seen only as Charlie Chaplin-type figures in the vintage archive film.

He said he used “computer power to erase the technical limitations” of such old footage, adding that we can now “see and hear the Great War as they experienced it”.

The footage is accompanied by the voices of war veterans.

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