1917 – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Mon, 10 Feb 2020 16:35:47 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg 1917 – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 How ‘1917’ Found Its Map https://www.maproomblog.com/2020/02/how-1917-found-its-map/ Mon, 10 Feb 2020 16:35:47 +0000 https://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1788381 More]]>

CBC News explores how the production team for the First World War epic 1917 consulted McMaster University’s collection of trench maps and aerial photography to produce an authentic replica of a situation map for the movie. The map they used, incidentally, is this one, a situation map showing British and German troop positions around Monchy-le-Preux on 24 April 1917:

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