WW2 Lost Films

[dannyday5821]

ww2 lost films is one of those history channel productions its really good so enjoyed watching it but afew things i didnt understand.

firstly - Jack Yusen's story about fighting the japanese ships and his ship sinks. they show footage of both the ship sinking and the guys supposedly lost at see on a raft. Now... from a filming perspective... that means, the same guy who filmed the battle, and the sinking, is the same guy whos filming them in the water...

so... are you telling me a guy on his own with a camera that survived not only in the water but the battle itself as well... but the footage survived well enough that it wasnt too damaged to be reused on a dvd years and years later...?

im tempted to think it was just clever editing which is quite possible i suppose but if youve seen it yourself what do you think?

since i got into video editing myself ive realised how tv shows edit their material... often tricking you into believing the final edit is how things happened when if you watch it again you can clearly see the editing :P a great example is that god awful new katie price programme!

but whatever... what do you think about the sinking ship story?

[twix123]

The ship seen sinking and the survivors on the makeshift raft was probably other footage taken about the same time just to illustrate Jack Yusen's interesting recollections.

[jno]

perhaps there was one cameraman

Perhaps there were two or more.

Perhaps it was not real footage of the events but of similar events, as twix says. But something called "lost films" should be a bit more upfront about what film you're actually watching.

If you ever see a film called Broadcast News, it's rather good on how news reports can be subtly altered.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092699/

(and it actually takes it seriously and ethically, not as a joke).

[heathfield]

I remember reading a book many years ago about the story of Pathé News. It said that a Pathé newsreel photographer was aboard one of the Royal Navy rescue vessels during the evacuation of the British Army at Dunkirk. He only shot 400 feet of film before putting his camera aside and helping to get people aboard the vessel. The book went on to say that all the rest of the film coverage of the evacuation of Dunkirk that we see today is from German sources!