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After four-week delay, new Civil War film set to debut on Saturday Date published: 6/3/2004
A $500,000 film about the Battle of Chancellorsville will première Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Chancellorsville Battlefield Visitor Center. "We are the envy of everybody I've talked to in the Park Service for having gotten such a high quality product as this," said John Hennessey, the movie's screenwriter and the chief historian at Fredericksburg & Spotsylvania National Military Park. Originally scheduled for May 2--during the battle's anniversary weekend--the première of the 22-minute film was delayed because of technical difficulties. It was professionally made by Historical Films Group in partnership with Friends of Fredericksburg Area Battlefields. Filmed last year in Spotsylvania and Charles Town, W.Va., the movie took about eight days to shoot. "As much as we liked the Fredericksburg film that we premièred two years ago, this one is better," Hennessy said. Unlike the 1970s-era slide show it replaces, the new movie captures both the military and civilian experience, he said. "Without a question, this is the biggest project we've ever undertaken," Hennessy said. It includes dozens of local actors and re-enactors, who appear as named characters and supply voice-overs. To reach JEFF BRANSCOME: 540/374-5000, ext. 5710
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