They Shall Not Grow Old will be released in theaters as a Fathom Event on December 17th and December 27th.
Back in 2014, just when he was wrapping production on the third of his Hobbit movies, Peter Jackson was approached by the British Imperial War Museum and the BBC about making a documentary film to commemorate British soldiers upon the 2018 centennial of World War I's Armistice Day. Jackson was granted access to century-old footage from the museum's archive, as well as old BBC audio interviews with some of the soldiers who actually fought in the war. Jackson was explicitly instructed to use this footage to tell the soldiers' story.
Four years later, Jackson turned out They Shall Not Grow Old, a technical experiment that more or less succeeds. Jackson – as he is wont to do – used They Shall Not Grow Old as an opportunity to explore the limits of digital filmmaking. Jackson, perhaps like many modern audiences, felt that the aesthetic of century-old film was distant and alien, keeping audiences too far apart from the cinema's subjects. It was silent, the frame rate was lower (making for a “sped-up” movement), there was little camera movement (cameras were too large to carry around) and of course, there was no color. For his documentary, Jackson not only colorized the film but – using revolutionary digital trickery – changed the frame rate to match the 24-frames-per-seconds that the modern eye is used to. Jackson also converted the footage to 3-D and moved the “camera” in a more dynamic fashion, lending the image a reinvigorated sense of scope and depth. To round out the realism, Jackson also added sound effects and voices to the footage, so we hear the booming cannons during the battles and the gentle chatter of the soldiers during the war's less hectic moments.
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