Techniki audiowizualnej rewitalizacji przeszłości – „I młodzi pozostaną” Petera Jacksona
Techniques of Audiovisual Revitalisation of the Past: Peter Jackson’s “They Shall Not Grow Old”

Summary/Abstract: The author analyses Peter Jackson’s documentary film "They Shall Not Grow Old" (2018), which was based on the archival film footage from World War I. He examines the use of the documents, arguing that the interventions made by Jackson’s team go beyond film restoration, and proposing the term “revitalization” to describe the effect of these changes. Further, the author analyses Jackson’s artistic choices, revealing the contexts and purposes of different aspects of his treatment of the footage (screenplay, colour palette, etc.), as well as discussing the preparation of the soundtrack in terms of contemporary practices of historical soundscape reconstruction. Finally, the author approaches the immersive aspect of "They Shall Not Grow Old", discussing audiovisual narratives of contemporary museums and the beginnings of film, arguing that Jackson’s documentary is in fact about the cinema itself and the memory of the Great War rather than about history.

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