John French’s diaries were discovered in the loft of a family member’s house many years after he died of tuberculosis in 1929, and are now stored at the Cornish archive centre Kresen Kernow in Redruth.<\/p>\n
Pupils fed the stories from the diaries as well as visual descriptions of the trenches into a generative AI programme to make the film.<\/p>\n
His niece Penny Picton was invited to the school to tell the story of her uncle and the discovery of the diaries.<\/p>\n
She said: “For someone who left school at 14 to work in a mine his writing was amazing – he was well loved by his 10 siblings and because of these diaries he’ll be well remembered.”<\/p>\n
She said she was moved to tears when she watched the film.<\/p>\n
The films formed part of the school’s entry for the Malcolm Doolin Prize for Local History research awarded by The Western Front Association, which it won.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"John French’s diaries were discovered in the loft of a family member’s house many years after he died…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":702985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[554,733,4308,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-702984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=702984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/702984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=702984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=702984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=702984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}