Peter Jackson's restored WW1 film screens for ANZAC Day
23 Apr 2008
A 93 year old movie, restored by Peter Jackson’s company, is screening in the lead up to ANZAC day on 25 April.
The film ‘Heroes of Gallipoli’ is being projected on the exterior walls of the Auckland Museum. These are the only known moving images of ANZAC (Australia and New Zealand Army Corps) troops in Gallipoli during the First World War.
The footage was discovered in a compilation of World War I film sold to the Australian War Memorial in 1938. Peter Jackson, director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, approached the Australian War Memorial several years ago about restoring the film. He has a long running interest in World War 1.
Hundreds of people have been gathering to watch the film in Auckland.
''The projection on the wall gives you a sense of what it may have been like back then during battle, the mist, all the dust,'' says Auckland Museum director Vanda Vitali.
The 20-minute film is believed to have been shot by British war correspondent Ellis Ashmead-Bartlett, the only person known to have filmed the action in and around Anzac Cove from July to September 1915.
Included in the film are scenes of New Zealand and Australian troops with their British counterparts, as well as firefight filmed in the trenches.
The film will screen continuously between 7.30pm to 10pm from 22-24 April at the Auckland Museum.
For ANZAC day events on 25 April, please visit the website links listed below.
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