[Rel] New Intro Movie "The Battle of The Atlantic"

[MackTheGovnah]

Originally Posted by VipertheSniper

Man this intro movie really rocks.

Where did you get this much colour footage? And do you know anything about the various conning tower designs, I mean some of them looked nothing like the ones we have in SH3.

The footage itself is from a 5 disc DVD set I bought several years ago titled "WWII Battlefront" Disc 2 episode 3 "The U-boat War". I was wasting some time at Target a few years back and spotted it for $20. Its not exactly on par with "The World At War" or the recent "The War" by Ken Burns but if youre a WW2 afficianado such as myself its a gold mine, and all 25 episodes are in color\colorized. Ive been sitting on the idea for some time and wasnt sure even HOW people made movies using video (this is actually the first movie Ive ever made for anything) until I ran across a link for Xmpeg.

Im not exactly sure about those conning tower designs. If anyone has any information I would also like to know. Also the end sequence where the U-boat is picking up survivors is almost assuredly the infamous Laconia Incident. You can read more about it at these links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laconia_incident
http://uboat.net/boats/u156.htm
http://www.uboataces.com/battle-laconia.shtml

A sad note is that U-156 which initiated the rescue operations and actually broadcast a plea for help on an open frequency was sunk with all hands on March 8, 1943.