War Documentaries are a scam

War Documentaries are a fraud

Without exception War documentaries are a fraud. It is impossible to film a war and then reassemble it as it happened. The reason is that it is impossible to have a camera where the action is as it happens.

Take this as an example. Lets say that this particular Division has a half dozen cameramen in the division to film the war. I don't know how many the table of operation calls for but I will use 6 just as an example So the battle begins but the problem immediately arises. Where is the action? Almost invariably it is not where the camera is. What you see in documentaries is purely by accident violent action caught by the camera. A documentary by the History Channel stated that only one time were Japanese and American soldiers caught in the same frame of a film. One or the other but not both at one time. This shows the difficulty of filming a war.

What producers do to make a documentary of a war is to cobble together battle scenes from many sources to make the war film they want you to see.

I have listed several ways to look at a film to see fake film

Dub sound in when it was shot with a hand held silent camera as all cameras were in WW2.

Next time a battleship, three or four miles away, shoots and it is instantly recorded you know this is impossible with the silent camera and besides sound travels about 1100 FPS so it would take a while to get to the recorder.

A favorite made in Hollywood  scene is have the camerman supposedly sitting on the wing of a plane going 300mph looking into the cockpit  of a fighter plane.

The camera is looking down on a scene when everybody else is hugging the bottom of a foxhole. This will be fake. The cameraman will also be in the bottom of his foxhole.

Another favorite fake shot is to have the camerman beat the first wave of an assault with a shot of a landing craft coming ashore. Other than beating the assault wave there are no other craft on the horizon. That one seems to be a favorite. Also the soldiers are nice and clean. Not all wrinkled up from sitting in the bottom of a ship for days or weeks.

Almost all of movie scenes of the December 7 attack on Pearl Harbor was made in Hollywood.

Next post will dissect the History Channels WW2 DVD in HD illustrating some of the above examples.



Take a look at Bills war. His widow created a story of his service with the 39th FA in WW2. Find it at http://billswar.blogspot.com
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