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Sound on BBC series The Great War"


Guest Simon Bull

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Guest Simon Bull

I am not at all knowledgeable about the technology of filming, but I am aware that the first "talkies" were not made until some years after the Great War. Accordingly, when there is sound attached to documentary footage of the Great War, is this "fake" sound dubbed on later, or did they in fact have the technology to record sound and film, but not in a form suitable for use outside documentary film?

Simon Bull

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Totally fake... used for us to get something from it when we see it now...

The Somme filmed in 1916 had its own piano score to go with it, and that conveyed the emotion and drama of the film..

John

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Guest Ian Bowbrick

Simon,

In the documentary on the series the sound man described where they got the sounds from. Also some of the battle scenes were rushes of training exercises that took place after the war!

Ian

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