Polish museum debuts 3-D movie about World War II

This looks quite an interesting idea: Polish museum debuts 3-D movie about World War II

The film will perhaps speak to the computer game generation for whom this event must be ancient history.

Obviously the people with the blinkers on who made the trailer did not realise that not everybody who reads the English subtitles will know that 1st August was the day the Warsaw Uprising broke out, for them it is "obvious".

I am a little puzzled by the aerial shots. The final complete series of Luftwaffe photos (taken before the 1945 date chosen to show here) show almost the entire Ghetto area [the third aerial sequence] flattened and the bricks carted off in railway trucks to the Reich. I had an opportunity to see them as I was working on a translation of a book on the topic a few years back and they made a great impression. In fact Google Earthers can see an underlay photo of Warsaw in Dec 1945 - and since I last looked - now 1935 too (the little "time/historical imagery" icon). Yet this animation (reputedly made on the basis of 1945 Soviet aerial photos) shows the area with upstanding walls and uncleared ruins. All very odd.

If you are visiting Warsaw, the Museum of the Warsaw Uprising (for which this film was made) is worth seeing, some innovative ideas and a few things to criticise. I personally would not say it gives a wholly balanced picture, but its still thought-provoking, good for kids.