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First World War

They shall not grow old (2018)

They shall not grow old and neither shall archival films if Peter Jackson gets his way. The actual point of using archival material (its authenticity) is oblirated by the erasing of the actual markers of this authenticity: black and white grained images in which we can still see the technological and logistical restrictions of film making in the Great War era. You can read an excellent blog post about this film here.
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Arrivée d’ouvriers chinois (1917)

Chinese labourers in France in 1917. From the collection Albert-Kahn (Archives de la Planète)
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