3D — like IMAX — can be (and usually is) little more than a party trick unless used sparingly or in some way integral to the story. I can’t think of a better use for 3-D than this short film “City of Ruins” showing at The Warsaw Uprising Museum.
It looks powerful. Here’s the story from Yahoo! News:
Oldakowski said it took 40 specialists two years to make the five-minute 3D aerial view sequence, a simulation of an imaginary flight over the city right after the war in 1945.
It will be shown at the museum, which documents the 1944 uprising and is a major draw for tourists and students from across the country. Last year, it had some 500,000 visitors.
Michal Gryn, from the Platige Image studio which made the film, said the team was not aware at first of the challenge before them in the form of the masses of documentary material they had to go through.
“It was a unique project to build a 3D model of authentic city ruins and make five minutes of film from it,” Gryn said. “I don’t think that anyone in the world has done this.”
His team took a helicopter flight over contemporary Warsaw to film base material. They filled it in with detail from some 2,000 historic pictures, films and paintings to recreate Warsaw as it was after the war. The result is a computer simulation that shows collapsed bridges along the Vistula River, whole districts of roofless, burned-out houses and the Warsaw Ghetto as a flat sea of rubble.
An inscription that closes the film says that before the war some 1.3 million people lived in Warsaw, some 900,000 at the start of the uprising and just 1,000 amid the ruins in 1945.
Before the war, some 10 percent of the city’s population was Jewish.
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The Red Army sat down across the river and watched the Germans annihilate the non Communist Polish patriots.A very sick story.
The Kaiser Wilhelm Gedachtniskirche (Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church) is in Berlin, Germany. It is a Protestant church, built in the late 1800′s. In 1943 it was nearly destroyed by allied bombers. In rebuilding the church after World War II it was decided to leave the main building and spire exactly as they were, at the end of the war. Pictures cannot empart what you feel when you turn a corner and see the original building surrounded by all the post war construction of modern Berlin. It is the closest to a time machine I have ever experienced. In my memory the church spire still looks black and white, colorless, while all around is normal.
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