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Anyone heard of the new Syeven Speilberg WWII Movie "red Tails" coming out soon about the Tuskeegee Airmen who were the fist black americans to fly for the USAF

http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=80471

I had a chat with my son about this a couple of weeks ago -- he's not at all into aviation, but he was interested in the fact that some of the action sequences were shot using Canon DSLRs, which is his interest, as he is in Colombia making a movie this way at the moment.

There was a lot of discussion about the movie over at the Orbx forum, with a few comments about Hollywood's ability to change the truth, which some find offensive. It's good to know these days that if anyone thinks they can do better, then can spend $2000 on a DSLR and make their own... But I'm not too concerned about attention to historical detail, I'm sure that George Lucas is more interested in making millions of dollars from a Hollywood blockbuster, rather than a few thousand dollars from a documentary, so I would expect some great OTT action.

The Tuskeegee Airmen , released early ninety,s , have a book on the group when first deployed in Southern Italy ... that one could maybe more factual the this release , little history on the group , when they escorted there first mission the bomber crews did not want the FG 'Red Tails' , after the 5/7 sorties they where the most highly requested to escort the groups off the 9thAAF . A legacy was every BG group they escorted as far as possible not one bomber was not shot down under there charge .
Frankly i hope they do as historical , and George if your listing ... None PEARL cr@p that come few years back !

Yeh i saw the origonal. was a good film i thought, lower budget but good use of real P-51's not this cgi rubish.

Funny I just happen to be working on a Red Tails skin for a VRS Superhornet for FSX when I saw that trailer.

toprob wrote:

QUOTE (toprob @ Aug 7 2011,4:27 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I had a chat with my son about this a couple of weeks ago -- he's not at all into aviation, but he was interested in the fact that some of the action sequences were shot using Canon DSLRs, which is his interest, as he is in Colombia making a movie this way at the moment.

Canon 5D Mark II, a real masterpiece. It's not the first time 5D's have been used this way, in the finale of the TV drama House 5D's shot the whole thing, due to the space restrictions. Many doco makers are starting to use them because they are also very cheap in comparison to a professional TV camera, but the video quality is pretty much identical. Very nice camera for stills as well.