The movie industry was able to compensate for this in various ways. This, unfortunately, included some quite rare prototypes and this is why relatively few German vehicles have survived to this day. As barbaric as it might sound to us today, in the war-ravaged world of 1945, metal was at a premium and almost all captured armored vehicles – especially the broken-down ones – were almost immediately scrapped to fuel the restoration of Europe. German tanks in working condition were – even right after the war – quite rare. In the 1950s and 60s, movie directors and producers faced a major problem: Very early on, the tanks appearing in movies were often actually real wartime or surplus vehicles, but such tanks could usually only cover the allied side (hundreds of T-34s and Shermans were readily available). Shot from the Soviet movie "Liberation" - notice the T-54 The use of armored vehicles for cinematic purposes goes back to the Second World War (although there are some even older examples). Cinema tanks are armored vehicles (or even trucks in some cases) masquerading as tanks for the purpose of the movie. Let's take a closer look at both these types of vehicles and some of their most common "tells".Įvery proper big screen movie set in a modern war has to have a dramatic scene where a tank (or at least a personnel carrier full of soldiers) appears only to be dispatched by the daring hero. While discoveries of new armored vehicles based on historical photographic evidence are possible (if rare), the majority of cases of "newly discovered vehicles" can be attributed, apart from less-known existing vehicle variants, to one of two categories: IS heavy tank cosplaying as KV-2 by Mosfilm The reality, however, is usually disappointing. Every now and then, a picture of an armored vehicle will appear on the internet often posted by someone excited about finding something new and unusual, making a mark on the pages of armored warfare history.
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