Crossman describes a number of staged war films that were shown in the American movie theaters at the beginning of World War I, and explains how these scenes were made. The audience also read stories that explained how these fake war films were produced.Ī typical example is an article that was published in March 1916 in the popular magazine Illustrated World. The film trade papers in America frequently ran articles warning exhibitors about the risks of showing fake and unreliable war films. Footage located in the BBC Great War series, Episode 5 (1964)Īlthough film was a relatively new medium during World War I the movie-going audience in the United States knew that not all of these supposed 'war scenes' were for real. ![]() German soldiers going over the top at the Western Front, filmed by Albert K. Dawson, on the Western Front around February 1915. This earlier weblog has more information on how war scenes were staged, with as an example the following film scene of a German infantry attack that was shot by American cameraman, Albert K. Some fake war films, like the movie that was shot by Arthur Dugmore on the Belgian defense of the city of Alost in September 1914, proved to be a huge success in the American movie theaters. Picture from the article in Illustrated World on fake war films, March 1916 ![]() The reasons for faking the footage were complex and have been described in more detail in our book American Cinematographers in the Great War. It is a clip that was released on YouTube on 15 December 2021, as a teaser for the video game War Thunder, and is almost certainly a computer-generated animation.World War I film scenes sometimes were staged before the camera. This is not real footage taken from Ukraine. ![]() This video has also appeared on Twitter with incorrect claims it was taken on that day, and was also shared by a former Ukrainian diplomat to the US.Ĭlip #5: From a video game. We were not able to verify what exactly the video shows, but it definitely doesn’t show Ukraine on 24 February 2022. The caption says (in Russian and translated by Google) “lightning strike at the power plant”. This video, showing a lightning strike and then a burst of light, first appeared on TikTok on 29 January. We will update this piece if we discover anything further about it.Ĭlip #4: Not taken today. It was recorded by an American man living in Tianjin.Ĭlip #3: We were unable to verify this footage. A clue that this wasn’t taken in Ukraine today is that the person recording has an American accent and is speaking in English. The second video was taken in 2015 in the Chinese city of Tianjin during an explosion at a warehouse that handled dangerous substances. ![]() The oldest version we could find on Twitter was posted in the early hours of Thursday morning.Ĭlip #2: Taken in 2015 and not in Ukraine. But we were not able to find an older version of this video online that disproves its legitimacy. The location tag is not proof it was taken there though-you don’t have to be in a place to tag it as your location on an Instagram story. The caption is a location tag seen on Instagram that names a district in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, and Russian airstrikes could be heard from the city on Thursday morning, so the footage is quite possibly genuine. We were unable to completely verify this clip, but we also don’t have reason to believe it wasn’t taken in Ukraine. Here’s what we’ve been able to verify about the footage:Ĭlip #1: Probably Ukraine. I’m in What this video shows-clip by clip You can help us take action – and get our regular free email
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