WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) β Director Peter Jackson has taken time off making movies to create a museum exhibition he hopes will give people new insight into World War I.
On Friday he unveiled the first stage of the Great War Exhibition in Wellington. Its opening is timed to coincide with the centenary of the ill-fated Gallipoli battle.
A World War I history buff, Jackson has been working on the project for the past few months after finishing his trilogy “The Hobbit.”
Featured in the exhibition are large color images depicting life in the trenches and on the battlefields. The color was added to real, black-and-white photographs by artists at Jackson’s visual-effects studio, Weta Digital.
Jackson owns a number of planes and artifacts from the era, some of which he has donated.
