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The WW1 modelers' reference library => Archived Period Films => Topic started by: macsporran on August 10, 2023, 09:11:49 PM
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Apologies if this has been posted before but it's new to me: link posted today over on a WWI fb site.
Reportedly Anthony Fokker's film, no sound unfortunately.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feP-__ZoxtQ
Lots of things worth noting - I've never seen Voss on movie film before. Goering is a really evil looking cove even smiling even back then! I always thought MvR was wearing a chin strap for his cap in the still pictures, but here I see it's a bandage for the wound dressing on the back of his head.
Wonder if Peter Jackson could be persuaded to run this footage through his 'cleaning up software'?
Sandy
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Nice find Sandy (I, for one haven't seen it before)
Cheers
Paul
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I believe it's the same reel as this; used to be linked here somewhere but the post seems to have vanished.
https://www.filmothek.bundesarchiv.de/video/578445
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I believe it's the same reel as this; used to be linked here somewhere but the post seems to have vanished.
That's apparently only 15mins although certainly includes a little of the YouTube footage which extends over 40 minutes.
S
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I believe it's the same reel as this; used to be linked here somewhere but the post seems to have vanished.
That's apparently only 15mins although certainly includes a little of the YouTube footage which extends over 40 minutes.
S
Yeah, there is/was a second part of the Fokker film somewhere, although I couldn't find it. Anyway, search 1914-1918 on that site for some great stuff.
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.... meanwhile, back on this thread, the YouTube footage is superb, do have a look.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feP-__ZoxtQ
Sandy
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There is a follow up to this with a talk explaining who everybody is on utube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APMJ_D26D5c
Also of great interest is a very rare shot of a Fokker D VI taking off at 18:46.
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There is a follow up to this with a talk explaining who everybody is on utube.
Also of great interest is a very rare shot of a Fokker D VI taking off at 18:46.
Good shout out, Mike. A lot of the background info - eg the train journey, etc added a lot to the silent film, for me.
But, oh, by the end I was shouting at the screen to stop mispronouncing Fokker's name as Foaker!!! Also the full americanisation of Werner Voss - rather than the phonetic Verner Foss it should sound like.
And his claims for the 'Foaker' D.VI are a bit wild, it was never a better aircraft than the D.VII.
Lot of good stuff though.
Sandy
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The way Americans pronounce Fokker frustrates me no end - even Kermit Weeks says it that way - and for years I wondered if I was the one in the wrong!!
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I can't agree more with you both. Americanisation of German words and names just makes me cringe. ::) ::)