Recode Decode: How Peter Jackson’s team made WWI footage look new

Decoder with Nilay Patel

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Business

4.3 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 15 December 2018

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Award-winning filmmaker Peter Jackson talks about his new film, a World War I documentary with sound and color called "They Shall Not Grow Old." In this episode: (00:37) Why he made the documentary; (06:21) The technology of WWI filmmaking; (08:33) Jackson's studios in New Zealand; (11:30) Does Jackson consider himself to be a technical person?; (14:39) The colorization of the old footage and addition of audio; (19:22) How the colors of the film were picked; (26:30) Machines, blood and feet; (32:09) The sound design; (37:28) What Jackson wants to achieve with "They Shall Not Grow Old"; (40:01) Where storytelling and filmmaking technology is going Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Sabotage, hired goons and a landfill in Utah.
0:05.0	How Steve Jobs' revolutionary catastrophe of a computer, the Apple Lisa, earned a brief
0:10.7	second life and then was buried for good.
0:14.8	Watch the Verges documentary, Lisa's final act, now on YouTube.
0:19.6	Hi, I'm Cara Swisher, Editor-large-recode.
0:25.0	You may know me as Bilbo Baggins's long-lost little sister, but in my spare time I talked
0:29.4	to you.
0:30.4	I'm Eric Tick and you're listening to Rico D-code from the Vox Media Podcast Network.
0:33.3	Today I'm really excited to be talking to filmmaker Peter Jackson, but Casey Newton,
0:37.7	it's not about why there are three Hobbit movies, although he's probably best known for
0:41.7	those Hobbit movies and for directing the Lord of the Rings.
0:44.5	His newest film is a documentary about the first World War.
0:48.0	It's called They Shall Not Grow Old and it uses state-of-the-art technology to tell the
0:51.8	story of World War I without making it seem like ancient history.
0:55.7	He's joining us from Los Angeles, Peter, welcome to Rico D-code.
0:59.2	Talk a little bit about how you got to doing this.
1:01.4	I saw a little bit of an intro to the movie, but why don't you tell what happened and how
1:05.2	you've decided to do this?
1:06.7	Well, thanks for having me, Cara.
1:07.9	I mean, I wish I could claim credit for deciding to do it, but what actually happened was
1:12.5	I was in London about 2013.
1:17.8	I think it was for the Premier League of the Last Hobbit movie and I was invited into
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