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Soldiers’ Stories is, as its Oscar-winning producer Nicholas Reed likes to put it, the world’s oldest 3-D film. It’s also one of the newest. The 30-minute film pairs century-old stereoscopic photos taken in the trenches by World War 1 soldiers with narration by Mickey Rooney and voiceover from recent American vets whose personal stories suggest that war never changes for those in the middle of it: loneliness, loss, intense camaraderie, bad food, bad weather, the adrenaline rush of combat.
“It’s original 3-D,” Reed said. “People think (the images) are fake, they’re converted. But it’s a real original film, using up-to-date modern technology to take old, old 3-D technology and bring it to the big screen.”
The film debuted with a screening in Beverly Hills this summer on the 100th anniversary of the start of World War 1, what producer/director Jonathan Kitzen calls the first industrial war.
“It’s original 3-D,” Reed said. “People think (the images) are fake, they’re converted. But it’s a real original film, using up-to-date modern technology to take old, old 3-D technology and bring it to the big screen.”
The film debuted with a screening in Beverly Hills this summer on the 100th anniversary of the start of World War 1, what producer/director Jonathan Kitzen calls the first industrial war.
- 10/4/2014
- by David Bloom
- Deadline
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