WWI MOVIE STAR

Creating realistic props for films has come a long way over the years since the days of some rather dodgy-looking models of warships in the 1957 film “Enemy Below” to the hi-tech CGI scenes created for the 2006 production of “Fly Boys”. War films are expensive to produce if they are to be realistic, especially when it comes to vehicles and tanks in particular. For example, the production budget for the 1998 movie “Saving Private Ryan” was $70 million and 16 years later for the 2014 movie “Fury” the budget was between $68 and $80 million. or the 2019 movie ‘1917’ the budget was estimated at a massive $95 million.

Original vehicles from WWI are very scarce and valuable and some have become so fragile the amount of drive time they can be allowed is severely limited. In fact, the Tank Museum at Bovington in Dorset, England, has had to cancel all