vfx wizardry smooths the movements of images, removing any jerky pictures. documentary i‘ve seen in the past. the brief that they gave me was, on the surface it was very simple and very wide open, itjust that you can do anything you want. but we would like you to use our archive film in a way that is unusual. so the first idea i had was i will get them to send me some 2k scans, material like three orfour minutes, send it to me in new zealand where we have our big visual effects department. i thought, how well can we restore this film? that blew me away. we were able to restore it way better than i thought we could. it took us a while to figure out all the techniques, because we were taking it further than anyone had with the restoration before. how did you ensure that the colourisation process, the restoration process, and the 3—d didn‘t overwhelm the story, the stories that you were telling, but enhanced the stories you were telling? i wanted it to be in colour. they saw it in colour. we think of the war as a black and white war. but it wasn‘t a black and w