Guest Colin M Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war, this has been post processed, colourized and sound added and its been done extremely well IMHO, going to go see this at Inverness cinema. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 Yes there's a lot on about WW1 at the moment. Unfortunately, it seems to assume more importance that WW2 at the moment and I don't really think that's right. WW2 was the war that impacted on and is within the living memory of a lot of people alive today and for those of us who experienced it, the memories are far more poignant. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Smudger Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 John, If we can hang on until 2045, it will be all about WW2, for us at the moment, this concerns our grandparents time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 Yes, I suppose you're right Smudger. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawrence aldrich Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 4 hours ago, Smudger said: John, If we can hang on until 2045, it will be all about WW2, for us at the moment, this concerns our grandparents time. Hang on until 2045 and it may be all about ww3.....assuming movies are still being made at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Kane Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 6 hours ago, Colin M said: A documentary about World War I with never-before-seen footage to commemorate the centennial of the end of the war, this has been post processed, colourized and sound added and its been done extremely well IMHO, going to go see this at Inverness cinema. Wow this looks amazing. I have see Peter Jackson's WW1 collection of vehicles and airplanes and it is very impressive. Leave it to him to make this sort of thing, he has a passion for it, and you bet he isn't making any money from this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Colin M Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 As Peter Jackson explains, its a work of passion, he is a good guy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Colin M Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 Mostly surprised its the younger generation I know that is grasping this, the older gents seem less interested ... this is really something special, its not a general movie release, will make its way to BBC or suchlike eventually though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CathyH Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 In NZ in the Sixties, when I was a girl, the old WW1 diggers were the senior generation of Returned men, although there were a few Boer War veterans still going. I heard a few stories about France from them Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodger Pettichord Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 In 1978, I met a WW One veteran who became a friend. He said that he thought WW Two got better publicity because it had a better plot. WW One just had men charging over the top and getting mowed down by machine guns. He said this with some bitterness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 Yes, as a young man my conclusion was that Kitchener was a butcher and totally unaware of the cost of his methods. Unlike one of the generals in WW2 who said; 'We don't want to do that, it will cost too many lives. Find another way.' Mind you, it didn't stop the carnage when charging the beaches in Normandy. Blimey Rodger, you've depressed me!. John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodger Pettichord Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 11 hours ago, JohnY said: Blimey Rodger, you've depressed me!. John Well John, there's a solution for that. Go on Kindle and download a novel by John York, That good read will cheer you right up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Kane Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 I've always liked Fifth Business by Robertson Davies. It is a great novel covering the years before and after WW1. It really gives you a great sense of life in that time as well as what some of these guys went through after the war. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted October 12, 2018 Share Posted October 12, 2018 I don't need to read a novel about those times Matthew. It would be too depressing. My Grandfather told me enough to know that for millions, life was very, very hard and a struggle to get enough to eat and find shelter. I also lived in the east end of London from before the WW2 and witnessed what life, and indeed, death, if not from the war, deseases such as diptheria, TB (which was rife in those poor districts), pneumonea etc could do to cut down the population. It was only after WW2 with politicians like Churchill, Beveridge, Bevin and Bevan, and I suppose Attlee, that things started to get better with housing, adequate food becoming available and plenty of work, that life became so very much better for the masses. I'm proud to announce to all and sundry, I now pass my spare time reading romance novels (not sex rubbish), flying of course and watching Strictly Come dancing and Dr.Who on television. By the way, glad to see you here Cathy and welcome. It would be nice to get a woman or two on here. Could Sue be tempted back d'you think? John Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TerribleT Posted October 12, 2018 Share Posted October 12, 2018 Looking forward to this compiled movie by a skilled and devoted person about a terrible time in my grandfathers' and great uncles' times - I still remember all their tales from childhood ANZAC days here in Australia concerning Gallipoli and the Somme. They all served and survived and without exception died young from the after effects of their WWI and Great Depression experiences - I have outlived them all in terms of life years thanks to their sacrifice. Here in Australia my parents generation of WWII diggers always deferred to the hard experience of the WWI diggers and their families. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YAMBA1 Posted October 19, 2018 Share Posted October 19, 2018 May be most of us are of the lucky generations and never new the hardship our Parents and Grands Parents had to endure . I still piecing together the life story of my father as he hardly ever spoke about the atrocities of WW2 and my GrandMa in WW1 never heard of GrandPa again We don't know where he died of where he is buried . My Grand Father name is engraved on a memorial in his home village in Alsace (France) I regret , that , as a kid I never really understood the true meaning of the commemorations Charles Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodger Pettichord Posted October 20, 2018 Share Posted October 20, 2018 Living in a civilized nation and watching it disintegrate to the point where food and basic shelter are hard to obtain---I can imagine it but cannot comprehend it. Hope I never experience it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YAMBA1 Posted October 21, 2018 Share Posted October 21, 2018 6 hours ago, Rodger Pettichord said: I can imagine it but cannot comprehend it. Hope I never experience it. So Right , Lets hope that the rest of our life and of our children we live in PEACE Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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