tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690077250072100801.post1386107306331404143..comments2024-02-26T11:04:22.115+13:00Comments on Reid's Reader – A Blog of Book Reviews and Comment.: Something ThoughtfulNicholas Reidhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05497366104216216952noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690077250072100801.post-67723660276130547682011-11-30T08:53:33.832+13:002011-11-30T08:53:33.832+13:00I think I know the images you have in mind here. T...I think I know the images you have in mind here. There's a famous "newsreel" of Tommies going over the top, one of whom slumps back into the trench apparently dead. It shocked audiences who first saw it in London in 1916, as they thought (reasonably enough) that they were actually seeing a man killed. Virginia Woolf ran home and wrote an appalled entry in her diary about it. It has now definitively been proven to be a simulation, filmed in the back areas far from battle and deliberately not too violent, so as not to upset audiences. Yet images from this clip still turn up in history books as authentic Western Front action.Nicholas Reidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3690077250072100801.post-17657828580141015372011-11-30T08:29:55.892+13:002011-11-30T08:29:55.892+13:00During World War I both sides permitted cameramen ...During World War I both sides permitted cameramen on battle fields but then decided that showing actual battles would be too demoralising to civilian audiences. Only filming of troops during lulls was permitted. American and British film archivists have researched and found that some film that was passed off to cinema viewers as battle scenes were actually of training and simulated battles. Too much reality not permitted?Om de Norocnoreply@blogger.com