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Looking for an actor to present a new type of history documentary.
You the “historian” will be travelling back in time to June 1944 to film a history documentary like no other. This isn’t your typical professor walking through ruins explaining things. Disguising modern cameras in period equipment, you and your camera man will be sent to cover the advance of the allies on D-day, including some battle scenes. We’ll be making a short pilot for a series where the presenter/historian goes back in time to witness the events first hand. Using visual effects and sound design to enhance the footage to make history exciting and engaging. This short pilot will be set in the days before and after D-day following a unit as they make their way in to German occupied France.

*Actor Video Audition Excerpt*

\"Hello, the year is 1944, the day, June 4th. Behind me we can see the hustle and bustle of what will be the largest seaborne invasion in human history. 156,000 troops will land on the beaches of northern France on D-day itself, thus opening up the vital second front promised to the Russians.
Although there are countless millions of stories throughout this war, each fascinating in its own way. In this episode I\'ll be following the South Wales Borders as they make their way in to German occupied France.
Behind me, the second battalion South Wales Borders are boarding landing ships in preparation for D-day. At the end of D-Day itself the South Wales Borders will have captured more ground than any other unit involved in the invasion.

A little about the unit\'s 280 year history. Originally known as the 24th regiment of foot in 1689, the men were recruited from the border counties of Monmouthshire, Herefordshire and Brecknockshire. The regiment wasn\'t known as the South Wales Borders until 1881. The unit has fought in a great many conflicts throughout its history from the American Revolutionary War to the Zulu War (famously fighting at Rorke's drift), WW1 and of course now, in WW2.\"

Please send video auditions to firsthandhistory@gmail.com

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