War insanity aside, it is interesting how you get better war footage from 100 years ago than today because today people film vertically and I swear you can't tell what's happening or the scale of what is going on. Cameras in every pocket, and yet we will have a vertical archive that you can't even use to understand the scale of destruction. Watch "World War II in Colour" videoneat.com/documentaries/14… to get an idea about how war can escalate so quickly. And how human beings can be so obedient and destructive. #tromlive

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> Many documentaries of this sort use the footage that people captured actually.

So why are they in landscape then ? What did people use before mobile phones ?

People should know that shooting in landscape is preferred for important things like documentaries. Also I think social medias like instagram and tiktok is what made these vertical videos popular, they could've just rotated the video player and shown landscape videos (like how youtube did it)