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The director of the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit trilogies has brought another world to life—and this one is real. Peter Jackson's latest film, They Shall Not Grow Old, uses colorized World War I footage and old veterans' interviews to tell the story of British soldiers on the Western Front, the New York Times reports. Much of the media focus is on Jackson's incredible footage restoration: His team not only sped up frame rates and added frames to make the jerky, hand-held film appeal to modern eyes, they hired a company to colorize much of it and a historian to identify colors down to the uniform buttons. Then came "forensic lip readers," who spotted what soldiers were likely saying and helped Jackson's team reconstruct the audio. Read More