CGI Martians Invade Actual WWI Footage in The Great Martian War
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According to Wikipedia, this ran on BBC America this summer, but if so I certainly missed it. Canadian-made for the UK History Channel, it’s a mock-doc about the World War we had with invaders from Mars back in 1913.
Let’s skip straight to the sizzle-reel, shall we? A montage of the doctored archival footage set to completely anachronistic techno music makes about as much sense as the rest of it…
Great martian war from PLAZMA on Vimeo.
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