![]() Photo Archive Lets You Download 4,300 High-Res Photographs of the Historic Normandy Invasion The Normandy Invasion Captured on 16 mm Kodachrome Film (1944) What’s more, none of their actions are rehearsed: as the 77th anniversary of D-Day approaches, we should remember that, whatever the bravery on their faces, not one of these men could have felt assured of victory. Eisenhower, not the German prisoners of war, and certainly not the wounded and dead. None of the participants are re-enactors: not the Allied troops boarding their boats by the hundreds, not General Dwight D. Originally shot in black-and-white like most ( but not all) Army footage of the 1940s, it’s been “motion-stabilized, contrast- and brightness-enhanced, de-noised, upscaled, restored to full HD and artificially colorized.” The result looks crisp enough that anyone without first-hand memories of the Western Front - a generation, alas, now fast leaving the stage - may well forget that it isn’t a war film but a film of war. These Juno Beach D-Day clips benefit from a technology unavailable even in Saving Private Ryan‘s day: artificial intelligence-based enhancement and colorization processes. But within two hours the Allied forced managed to overcome these coastal defenses and began making their way inland - a direction in which the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division managed to push farther than any of D-Day’s other landing forces. Juno Beach, however, was primarily a Canadian job: that country’s army landed there under support from the Royal Canadian Navy (with additional help from several other Allied navies).Īs on Omaha Beach, the troops who first landed on Juno Beach came under heavy German fire and sustained serious casualties. As such, it made a suitable inclusion indeed for an American war story like Saving Private Ryan. Coast Guard as well as the U.S., British, Canadian and Free French navies. The taking of Omaha Beach was assigned to the United States Army, with support from the U.S. This, its uploader stresses, “is not the famous movie D-day the Sixth of June but actual and real footage.” No wonder it feels more realistic than that 1956 Henry Koster spectacle - and, in another way, more so than Spielberg’s picture, whose use of not just color and widescreen dimensions but advanced visual effects made World War II visceral in a way even those who’d never seen combat could feel. The video above depicts the landing on another, Juno Beach. More specifically, Spielberg and his creators recreated the landing on Omaha Beach, one of five code-named stretches of the Normandy coast. For all enquiries, please email Lance Blades: or call him on +44(0)7870 257471.Steven Spielberg’s Saving Private Ryan drew great acclaim for its harrowing depiction of “D-Day,” the 1944 Allied landing operation that proved a decisive blow against Nazi Germany. The War Archive is an invaluable source for researchers, writers, directors and producers. The War Archive also now includes original film footage covering armed conflicts from all over the world, from the end of the Korean War in the early 1950s through to the present times. In addition, the archive also includes 30 hours of original German Newsreels (Deutches Wochenschau) from WW II. More than 200 hours from USA, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and Japan have been transferred from the original film to both digital and analogue tape, and cover virtually all significant relevant events in some considerable detail. ![]() The archive spans the two world wars and includes the years leading up to the war of 1914-18 and through to the Korean War in the 1950s. The War Archive is an extensive and singularly unique library of original film footage from the 20th century. ![]() Images of War, original film footage from the first and second World Wars
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