WWII Lost Films: The Making of - Finding The Footage

[Bloodgod40]

Also, the brightness and vividness of the color depends on how the footage has been stored since WWII. If it's been exposed to 65 summer-winter cycles with all the swings in temperature, humidity etc. that entails it likely will have degraded quite a bit. The color will look flat and washed out.

If it's been stored in a consistently cool, dry environment it will be better.

[Bloodgod40]

I don't think much of it gonna be worth recording in HD.

Theoretically you could get resolution as good as HD out of the 8 or 16 mm film stock, but it depends on the quality of the lenses, focusing etc. in the cameras being used to record it. Shitty lenses = shitty recording, no matter what resolution the recording media could actually hold. Look through a pair of el-cheapo binoculars to see what I mean about the effect of crap lenses.

[DELTA912420]

the film back then was and still is a series of pictures..how is to long to type out a explanation but thats what it is...

Great-grandfather told me thats what it was,as he was a photographer during ww2.(Navy for the AP)

[sanimalscoolzfriend]

this series gives me chills...every single episode does especially the episode where at the end the play Eisenhower's speech with the beautiful soundtrack and the D-Day landings that part almost made me cry...it was beautifully done!!!!!!!

[kerrayz]

Can anyone tell me what the soundtrack is at the beginning of each episode?

[jerryaltman]

Restored ?????????  the colors still looks dull, fadded, unnatural colors...

[civicmike01]

This is a brilliant series, ive been watching it everyweek night. But can anyone tell me the song used at the beggining of each episode please? Any info would but greatly appreciated. Thanks.

[TheHistoryChannelUK]

Thanks for your comments, youre absolutely right the show was not originally shot in HD. However, utilising a revolutionary new RED ONE digital camera paired with a telecine machine and a fantastic team we have been able to transfer the original 35MM film into a full HD quality show. We have uploaded another video "WWII Lost Films - Preserving the Footage" which further explains this process.

[sajseven]

@TheHistoryChannelUK Oh cool! Thanks for the reply! ;-)

[akmandem69]

This is very hard to beleive, old recorded clips during WW11 in HD?

[GTOOtt]

WW2 in HD??

Surley it has to be filmed in HD to be HD?

Or is the History Channel lying.

[pelvist]

@GTOOtt Video needs to be recorded in HD for it to be played back in HD.

[afiqhanifah]

@GTOOtt

their change to HD means record with red camera on higher resolution and better colour quality...

[MrThearnichols]

this is it so real for the first time its like it was filmed yesterday u really understand what it was like good work

[BKsMassive]

they had HD back in the day? Wow ;D

[BKsMassive]

/watch?v=GYt1jF4lJDQ

[FilMarck]

Really Hi-Def, did they remastered it?

Quite frankly, I'm not sure it's "HD" more an up-scale I think, but hope I'm wrong.

[SilentFishy]

These videos are really cool if your learning about histroy.

[greenmagoos]

calling plague of egypt gentile sniffing angels for the nazi gas chambers+Israeli goyim

watch?v=_E9salM5fHM

i'm confused, why are the jews 'irish' and nothing like the khazari gentile mutts in Israel?

watch?v=5hYqeXgnRW8

[hotking321]

What days are the on?

[jazz4]

This is a great series.

[mal334455]

superb series and superb quality....watched 3 episodes so far.....

[1994fishcake]

Looks Awesome

[MysterySparkStudios]

How can the footage be High def, would you need the cameras that they used for big hollywood pictures at the time? so wouldnt the footage be from cameras not used in battle, but more posing shots and rallies

[ThatBinBand]

how can it possibly be in HD??

[DonbeeFwz]

I'll be sure to keep an eye out for this.

[fyphfoko]

i'm with sajseven here

some of that footage looked like it was 8mm, he rest looked lie 16mm

...thats not hd, unles maybe you think you might see something hidden in the grain

[sajseven]

@fyphfoko I'm guessing that they've projected it onto a wall and then recorded that projection in HD, because that's what it looks like they're doing in the video.

But that's still not HD, in the same way that making an HD video of a standard definition television wouldn't make the footage on the TV high definition.

[sajseven]

Sorry, but how the fuck can footage recorded in the 1940's be high definition? Pixels weren't even relevant to camera rigs back then!

[AgZarp]

7 comments? wth?

[garymanley21]

Maybe someone could point me in the right direction for making my movie on 'one man and his dog'. info can be seen on WWII dog(Antis) on you tube, thank you to anyone who can help.

Gary Manley

[skeetabix36]

Im looking 4ward 2 seeing this!

[Steeltherion]

Looks good, but the experience of the war is through the eyes of 12 individuals, all of them American. After so much effort scouring the world for footage, once again it seems that only Americans have anything worth telling. A great pity considering other nations were in involved aswell, yes, it's true!

[Dippeh]

@Steeltherion Couldn't have said it better myself, but it's still important to watch i'm sure.

[lKyrios123]

great!

[wwwgxtv8mcom]

Can't wait YAHA and first