HD Wars
It’s the battle of the HD channels. Smithsonian Channel HD has its own offering for Veterans Day. “Apocalypse: The Second World War.” Good title … WWII was about as close to apocalypse as our world has seen this side of the Black Death … also looks like good viewing, making the usual claims of previously unseen archives-scoured footage. With noted lefty peacenik Martin Sheen, the former faux feel-good President of the United States, narrating. Smithsonian is also screening Iwo Jima and Omaha Beach in HD the same night, Nov. 11. Sneak peaks for all of the above at the link.
Then, the week after that, Nov. 15-19, you get the History Channel’s weeklong WWII in HD, with Unapologetic-American Gary Sinise narrating, but directed by flaming Obamist Fredric Lumiere. Could make for some heavy irony, if Obama is as expected splitting the baby on Afghanistan and his Hollywood cheering squad is busy extolling all that “Infamy” and “We will fight them on the beaches … we will never surrender.”
Speaking of which, remember the guys who have been fighting them in the sand, fighting them in the dust, fighting them in the mountains, and now fight on in the hospital wards. The Valour IT push is on, to give laptops to wounded servicemen. At the invitation of Cassandra at Villainous Company, whose Marine husband is forward deployed in Afghanistan, we’re with Team Marines this year. Pushing the Marines ahead is just the fun part of the drive. It all goes to everyone in all branches. Give as you can.
Apropos of all of the above, VC offers up a good quick read: Marines though the Lens of History.
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 9:51 am Comments (1) on Friday, October 30, 2009
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October 30th, 2009 at 2:24 pm
Looks like the Smithsonian isn’t above pulling a “Ted Turner” by “colorizing” old black and white film. There’s their special “never been seen before” hook.
I’ll stick with John Ford, William Wyler, and Wild Bill Wellman.