Moving Picture Company, British creator of computer-generated imagery, has designed for the Discovery Channel images of Adolf Hitler that feature such a quality is such – from the colour of the film to the graininess of the images – that it could even have been taken by the Führer’s private cameraman, Walter Frentz.

The project should herald the next generation of television history programmes that bring historical events to life so realistically that the audience believes that it is watching genuine archive footage.

But both historians and documentary-makers might raise the issue of the ethics of interspersing CGI with archive film, since it could lead to the distortion of history, with the possibility that fake archive footage will be passed off as real.

Details in Media Guardian.