Promo Trailer for new film script "The 34th Battalion"

[elsaseaford]

Cool. Was doing a tad of research on my G.Uncle, Lt. Henry Thomas Britton VC (34th) when I came across this. He joined up as a digger, promoted in the field, got the MC for knocking off two machine guns and pulling in wounded, then got plugged with some shrapnel while showing some yanks the lines, and later died of his wounds. Tuff lad.

[thebruce1313]

hey nice vid, can anybody tell me where the photo at 0:32 was taken????

[zipsrule]

What about the 33rd Battalion?

[InFrameProduction]

My Grandfather was in the 34th Battalion and then later on is the 54th Battalion. Can read about him on my Flickr page.

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[Nomes1971]

My GG-Uncle was in the 34th Battalion....he returned home, but did not live too long due to the after affects of Gas Poisoning..... :(

[InFrameProduction]

@Nomes1971 Makes me wonder if my Grandfather fought together

[04bridekirk]

Thanks for this preview: my direct ancestors Lieut Harry IKIN (kia) and Pte George IKIN (dow), both young farmers fought in 34th Batt. More of 'mine' fought WW2, telling me the reasons why they enlisted. The surviving airforce pilots told me the only way they could carry out their missions (both based in England) was to believe the enemy was evil & that they must destroy them or else BE destroyed, simple as that. Both world wars were perpetrated by Germans & allies. Lest We Forget

[birgik2]

#OMG Downloacl or watch thіs movіe onlіne роор.su

[StackedHeels]

I'm stoked to see some of the German helmets I made featured at 1:10 min into this film. AWESOME!! : )

[Sturmmann]

its good but change the HMG sounds, the CoD's BAR sound is annoying.

alot of call of duty weapon sounds are over pitched.

[enyagary]

@zinja123 as if you havent seen this film yet, you dont know what your missing,i watched it @ - i watch movies 43 . c o m

[BubbaGump0722]

what type of camera you guys useing...looks like it'll be great once the pieces are put together

[dkstryker]

its about time another film bout the great war came out. there arent very many out there and this is brilliant!!!!!!!!!!! please let me know when it is produced i want to buy it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!1

[Tropicous]

Yep your right!

[Tropicous]

Done & Dusted Filmed in Townsville!

[34thanzac]

No sir, wrong movie - that was Beneath Hill 60.

We are making in-roads with this script though, which is much more high concept then the previeously mentioned film.

[gmspeedfreak]

australians should be proud of what we fought for, but we are under attack yet again this time by greedy people in power and politicians - oppresive trade that is destroying our heritage of domestically made goods and farming. and all for a quick buck everything we fought for is ww1 and ww2 is getting recked or already has been recked by greedy generation x and generation y

[tim0090]

this is the reason that im moving out of england its ruled by the ignorant and greedy. aussie dont put up with that as much as we do so i no ill get on much better there than here!!!

[Octavius0]

good luck. hope it gets made.

[FlashLightKnifeFight]

Wow yes a film thats not going to over glorify American achievements. WOOOO

[HiMATE626]

looks alright

[Comred1]

The first song is from The Rock, it's the main theme.

[hardyextrem23]

Well done!

[Rebekie170589]

sounds interesting if portrayed well

[Airman450123]

oh and P.S.

Try to get it released in US

America needs a GOOD

movie

[bommer321]

Instead of a movie how about a regular series like hogans heros but serious. Base it off the Charleys War comic books

[Airman450123]

being a bit of a first/second world war fanatic

i think this movie could be the best of our time!

if i could i would love to help

THIS IS GREAT!

i'm working on a WWI movie too

but this looks AMAZING!

if ever money was to be spent then it should be spent on this!

[schmmity13]

man this looks epic as, if the australian movie company is willin to spends millions on that lackluster movie 'australia" they should be willing to give just as much to something that is good

[LachoDroogie]

and when he gets to heaven

to saint michael (?) he will tell

another soldier reporting sir

i've served my time in hell

R.I.P brave soldiers, allied and German alike

lest we forget

[1bennyboysickass]

well done guys i hope u doo it the world needs to know our aussie sacrafice during world war 1 good luck

[moviemanhi]

looks good i love world war 1 movies and 2 also but this looks like it would be good MAKE SHURE U RELEASE IT IN CANADA!

[sevensixtwomm]

Good luck with this :)

[CaptainVandorian]

Good luck guys!

[zaohad1]

Best of luck guys!! WW1 films are pretty rare.

[RollandB]

I hope you get this done! WWI movies are rare, but sadly because people don't seem to care about all the pain and suffering of that war :(

[CJL1194]

U have no idea

[chewie211171]

Has the movie been released?

[GovVance]

Very good.

Would be a good one for the silver screen.

[IronBirdFilm]

Do you guys have a director attached? Who's your producer?

[Dernancourt4]

Hey guys, great film. Just wanted to let you know that the 34th Battalion never made it to the Western Front until 1917. Its first battle was at Messines, Belgium, which I think would make a far more interesting concept for a film.

[34thanzac]

The 34th battalion arrived at the line in November 1916 and was there for the worst winter of 1916-1917. You are right that thier first battle was Messines which is featured alot in our script as well as the 12th of october 1917 where a Captain in the battalion won a VC.

[thunderflash82]

you guys should check out "Paschendale" by Paul Gross - it's a Canadian movie about WW1 that's coming out this week.

[Dwnofthded]

id love to c a modern big budget ww1 movie

[hazelchaos]

Passchendaele is being released in theatres on october 17th, 2008, and just had rave reviews at the toronto international film festival

[Dwnofthded]

no way :))) brilliant havnt even heard bout it, thanx for tellen me

[SleptwithPenFriend]

hazelchaos: Really, a film about Passchendale is being released. Hope it is done in a non Hollywood way.

[alastairppcli]

at over 20,000 dollars it is the biggest budget Canadian movie ever made, it is going to be amazing, It is about time that a story about the war indeed any war in our memory was told from the perspective of the colonies

[UndaThaRug]

are you serious?

[cow2972]

Though this is Canadas first movie in "our" perspective, there has been other commonwealth colonies that had movies/stories made in their perspective. I recommend one of Mel Gibsons first movies: Gallipoli. it's about the ANZAC (auzzies and kiwis) in WWI during the battle of Gallipoli in Turkey.

[chewie211171]

If you can get a hold of the 1980s aussie miniseries 'Anzacs', you will get a much better perspective of the Australian forces in ww1. This mini-series was followed a platoon of mates from when they enlisted to when the survivors returned home. It was a great tribute, ,was well researched, well actored and had a great cast which included Paul Hogan. It is much better than 'Gallipoli'.

[Whatupwidat]

Try "The Odd Angry Shot", it's not WW1 but a Vietnam war film about Aussie SAS.

[alastairppcli]

yeah i have seen it its a good one, but it has been pointed out that more SAS died in that movie than in the entire war

[thevladdo]

theres a movie called The Lose Battalion which is nice too.

[kilbairn]

Do it!!!! Good Luck!!! I hope to see this project realized. There aren't enough WWI movies at all!!! As far as theANZACS we at least have Gallipoli all though it quite short on war...also Breaker Morant but that was 20 years earlier. Good luck once again! Please!

[eisenkreuzmusik]

Did it become a movie yet?

[anzac21]

i reckon that there isnt enough highlighting the kiwi units of WW1. new zealand took the most disproportionate casualities of any allied country in WW1, losing 18,000 killed, not to mention casualties out of a force of roughly 100,000. My great grandfather was at galipoli and fought at paschendale.

and i think that the contributions of the smallest dominion are far too overlooked in film

[LundyIsle]

Acknowledged. Name a film of WW1 that mentions the British lets say The Royal Warwicks The South Staffs Rifle Brigade Sherwood Foresters The Leicesters Royal Welch Fusillers Northumberland Fusillers The Devons Durham Light Infantry Seaforths Black Watch Artists Rifles dont worry anzac21 we to are overlooked,worldwide.

[yopabs]

This needs to be a movie... God I hope it will become one, people need to know about these brave soldiers... Good Luck, from Texas

[McMehh]

Very good trailer! I hope it gets made! Good luck!

[percydanvers2]

If I wasn't broke, I'd invest in it. Good luck, I hope you make a movie out of it.

[lundholm4]

Australians?Where they there too?

[percydanvers2]

All the comonwealth was there

[1860michael]

wots the song in the back? some one pleas answer!

[Miamishoe]

the second one is escape by craig armstrong

[addadadadagfrhythtgf]

cool video mate

[dunkindutchman]

"I didn't know the australians were there too." My god dude... they lost their lives by the thousands. The Galipolli invasion force was mainly Aussi. Some of the best soldiers in the war. Do not put them in billets though... :)

[gert83]

Nope - Gallipoli invasion force was mostly British and French, as were the vast majority of the allied casualties. It's famous from an Australian perspective because it was the first time the ANZACs actually fought as a distinc volunteer force in WWI.

[AlienFirefox]

depends which part you mean

the first part the worst part was just the anzacs the brits and french didnt come in till later

[gert83]

That's just not true mate - the Brits and French were the majority force right from the 1st landings, and suffered the same 60% casualty rate the ANZACS did. life was cheap in all camps.

[AlienFirefox]

they where on a different part of the beach and they wernt in that main part of the invasion

look it up

an old survivor said that when the australians and anzacs landed they where alone

the irish scottish french and english where playing soccer on the other side of the beach and where later wiped out

[peoplecan1965]

Thats rubbish about the football.

[Rsihombing]

don't make the Germans "evil"

[AlienFirefox]

@Rsihombing

they were considered evil back then mate

they started the war

they were the aggressors

[scepticpatriot]

@AlienFirefox haha they just joined Austria (their allies) against Serbia. than France with it's "triple entente " alliance with Russia and UK declared war to Germany.....

note that France secretly gave weapons and ammo to Serbia before officially being in the war so this is to me dirtyer than what Germany did....

moreover France wanted to take back " l'Alsace-Lorraine "wich they lost during the franco-prussian war.

although I am not German or Austrian I'm just OBJECTIVE !!!

[scepticpatriot]

haha they just joined Austria (their allies) against Serbia. than France with it's "triple entente " alliance with Russia and UK declared war to Germany.....

note that France secretly gave weapons and ammo to Serbia before officially being in the war so this is to me dirtyer than what Germany did....

moreover France wanted to take back " l'Alsace-Lorraine "wich they lost during the franco-prussian war.

although I am not German or Austrian I'm just OBJECTIVE !!!

[EricClaptonEC]

Bloody awsome! with a good budget behind you

you will go somewere in life

that was very good mate keep it up plz!

[aussiedownunderman]

ahhh trench warfare, u gotta love a film based on organised chaos

[SiCDisaster]

Very nicely done for a low budget movie.

[demonman444]

Looks pretty good. But I doubt it will get off the ground though. Too much competition, especially in Australia.

[ConstanceMarkiewicz]

I hope this gets made!!! Amazing guys!!! Well done!

[p3990013]

I have a regiment photo of my great-great-grandfather who served in the Cavalry during WWI. Before armoured tanks were introduced in my country's army :)...

[rockerhippi]

Honor to the Canadian British and German men who died at Paschendale.

[9944556]

dont forget the australians mate, we lost thousands

[rockerhippi]

oh, I didn't know the austrailians were there too.

[onegirlsoalone]

looks good have seen much of your work like it alot. doing good

[Harbinger1978]

First off there are dozens of movies in full color based around WW1, so ridiculous comments like 'Only exp in Black + White undermine your trailer instantly. Also since there have barely been 4 generations SINCE ww1, 'For generations' is somewhat of an overstatement. That said, kudos to ur DOP + ur costume/props department and good luck with it.

[kolalajoe]

Non of those movies were about Australian's smart ass.

[asdawaeiv]

lik what

[officialgregwalsh]

Looks really good guys! when is the film going to be in production??

[kolalajoe]

OMG bro their is a australian branch of paramount pictures. In australia that want to make at least three aussie movies a year with hollywood budget's. You must look in to it.

[ejcmartin]

A Canadian actor, Paul Gross, has amassed something like $20million to make a movie called Passchendaele. I believe it begins filming soon. Perhaps it's success could increase interest in your script. Good Luck.

[montbrehain]

While I welcome anything that chronicles the "Great War" especially the AIF. I really hope before this film makes production the producers get a good military/historical advisor on board. Because I think they really need it. Its just as easy to make a film with the correct detail as it is without it. Of course if its just for the masses who dont care about detail? and just want blood guts and machine guns ? its fine.

[34thanzac]

Thank you for the comment. If you check out the second promo you will see more of the research side. Prominent Australian military advisor Mr Ian Sparke penned this story around 14 years ago and has remained a co-writer. He will be remaining as Associate Producer/military advisor. Our number one concern is detail. This is a script that has captured every detail of the western front. Yes there are gritty battle scenes, much like 'Band of Brothers', but it is a very personal story.

[trappf]

Mate i have grown up on the legends of the ANZAC's and it really upsets me the lack of popular litrature and film on the Western Front. God Bless you mate keep on this

[DarthFrogger]

Bloody Awesome...You MUST Continue With This!

[Grossdeuchland]

Sparky,

Mate I cant wait till the Aussie film industry wakes up & takes notice of REAL talent. The first time I reac the original script I was very moved by the writting.

Good luck mate, the 18th Btn is behind you all the way.

Graham :-)

[arnoldkearimal]

Good luck guys. It would be wonderful to see the actual events, instead of the glorifications that hollywood and other places are so fond of.

[wot321]

Does this have anything to do with the significance of Villers Bretonneux? If so it would make a great story as Australia has not since had such an impact on world affairs as they did at Villers Bretonneux.

[34thanzac]

Yes, the climax of this film is the battles around Villers Bretonneux - one in particular. This script also shows the battles of Messines and Passchendaele

[wot321]

Awesome. Good luck with finding a backer for your script. I hope it goes well for you mate.

[VideoGuy87]

wow nice

[rothery86]

Good luck from the PGA forum, Sparky.

[clickydamir]

Great Job. I respect what you are doing and back you up the whole way. However maybe you would concider producing the movie on film instead of digital, which I am assuming you are using. If you have no film, try using an effect when you are editing it to give it that look. I don't know if you are aware, but in films you'll see at the cinema, there is normally a slight blueness added to the image to give it that particular look. I know how hard this stuff is. sin

[34thanzac]

Thank you for the nice comment. We only shot this on digital to raise intrest in our script. By no means are we asking to direct the feature ourselves, we just want producers to take a look and maybe want to see the script.

Thankfully after being on here for just two weeks we have had to send the script to two differant producers of well known companies.

I fully support it being shot on film for a big cinema release.

[ultradumbass]

i got this canadian ww1 script written myself. script expert writers approved saying it was very good and it could work, only thing is i am still a couple years too young to get into it. i do not know exactly how much money it will cost to make this movie that i have written down, so can you tell me roughly how much yours costed to make this, so i can have an idea how much money i have to collect for mine.

[houghton28]

What a fantastic preview, would love to see the feature length. As I understand, not a lot of films show the Aussies on the front line in France. I feel the 34th Battalion would be an historical wonder that would be be a huge hit world wide. Fantastic. I especially love the last scene - what an awe enpiring shot.

[OneNationTV]

Great promo, but I would like the messege page at the end to stay up a bit longer please.

[34thanzac]

If you require to see the message you may pause the video ,or, all the infomation is in the section "About this video" located right of the screen(you may have to press 'more') The Message does stay up, though U-Tube advertises other films over the screen.