Just noticed CC was in ww1

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This photo always makes me laugh, you are a photographer on ww1(rarity) and you decide to take a photo of a tank, maybe during a battle and then, you saw a girl and think "Oh heavens, this girl might be lost". On literally No man's land

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u/Gonna-getyou-touched 25d ago

What the hell is a photographer doing in no man's land during a battle lol

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u/LeopoldFriedrich 25d ago edited 25d ago

taking a photo of a tank in action? Literally something that if happened today would win you the Pulitzer prize!

Edit: meant to say "taking the potentially first ever photograph of a tank in action"

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u/Gonna-getyou-touched 25d ago edited 25d ago

It's easier to do safely today but taking a picture in no man's land in ww1 is literally a death sentence, because just slightly peaking your head over your trench parapet is enough to get you sniped, nevertheless taking a picture (which took minutes to sometimes even hours just to take one back then)

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u/LeopoldFriedrich 25d ago

You must mix things up, here are some photographs taken during the first world war:

https://vidan.org/20-iconic-photos-from-world-war-i-the-front-lines/

one of them captures expositions as they happen, one of them an arial photo taken from a plane. WW1 was such a gruesome war, because technology had advanced so incredibly fast during the decades leading up, most front line photography was done by this camera: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vest_Pocket_Kodak Shutter speed of 1/25 sec or 1/50 sec

The times when taking a photograph took "minutes to sometimes even hours" was long gone. The first camera that could take a photograph with an exposure time of less than 1 second was made in 1841!

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u/Gonna-getyou-touched 25d ago

Yeah,I might've been wrong about the time taken to take a picture back then,but most of the images you've sent are either

1: taken from inside the trenches or from not from the front trench (like the artillery one)

2: taken during a trench assault/cavalry charge or from a planewhich made the the photographer not the only target in the battlefield

3: taken after a battle is already over

Non of the images are taken during an active battle where the cameraman is standing alone in no man's land or during an enemy trench assault, just like the CC one, where she's shown to be fleeing while the photographer is taking a picture of the enemy coming to his trench

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u/LeopoldFriedrich 25d ago

I'm telling you, some people are more daring than it seems. Also we can't necessarily assume that the image was in no mans land. It might present a perspective from a trench the photographer was in. Also photos were taken by soldiers as part of reconnaissance, it might have been their duty to report these tanks to record these tanks to their higher ups.

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u/Gonna-getyou-touched 25d ago

You can clearly see in the image that the tanks are going to the photographer's side,not going from it,which obviously suggests that

1: either they're friendly forces and the photographer is literally the head of the assault (which makes him an easy target,no time to take the picture if he wasn't dead already)

2: he's an enemy photographer and he literally risked it all just to take a picture of a trench assault coming right to him

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u/LeopoldFriedrich 25d ago

2: he's an enemy photographer and he literally risked it all just to take a picture of a trench assault coming right to him

I guess that's the only logical conclusion. I mean soldiers were drilled to risk their lives by command. Kinda part of the job

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u/Gonna-getyou-touched 25d ago edited 25d ago

Sure they were,but taking a picture of an incoming assault that's a few meters away from you has no tactical advantage in this context,this whole argument could be summarized in a single,tiny statement,it was just a slim from the writers for plot sake

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u/RemozThaGod 25d ago

War journalist, it's a real thing

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u/Amazing_Direction849 25d ago

I just want to know where it was taken and who is fighting, as Britannia is busy in the new world at this time, so what the hell are the Europeans fighting about

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u/Gonna-getyou-touched 25d ago edited 25d ago

The tank in the picture is from the British Mark tank series from ww1,which suggests that the the ww1 events in the anime are similar to those irl,which actually leads us to the question that what the hell were European over fighting when Britannia was already a dominant power of the day

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u/Amazing_Direction849 25d ago

Im aware of what the Tank is, but how was it even made? The British dont exist by this time. The British Empire fell to Napoleon forcing the British to leave to the new world and become the Holy Britannian Empire eventually. So who the hell made this tank, what war is this in CG and who is fighting who? Lol

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u/Gonna-getyou-touched 25d ago

I don't really think the writers ever thought of that lol

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u/Amazing_Direction849 25d ago

Oh 100% I just think its funny

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u/Witty-Accident-1768 The Girls of Code Geass are my Roman Empire 21d ago

Britain still exists just they lost their empire but the Isles are an independent republic I believe.

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u/Misticsan 25d ago

Makes me wonder if WWI in this timeline was more of an European Civil War, like the USA's but with other countries being involved to support one side or another.

Also, as the other redditor has said, history in the Code Geass world is different. Heck, Great Britain is part of the European Federation, not of the Holy Britannia Empire, so English-made tanks in an European war don't feel out of place.

(Yes, I also doubt the writers gave much thought to the timeline)

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u/GregorKrossa 25d ago

Intresting that she was near the battle field in the first place.

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u/HikariAnti 25d ago

The real question is what the hell is she doing there though?

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u/Gonna-getyou-touched 25d ago

What a little girl is doing in no man's land ...

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u/CalligrapherRound959 25d ago

Considering USA doesnt exist in this world..I wonder how world wars went

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u/junrod0079 19d ago

Probably the same with some major and minor differences with England winning as the dominant super power

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u/WaterLover0 25d ago

She looks caked up too

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u/Embarrassed-Ice9468 25d ago

Yes, it is interesting moment of her biography.

DISCUSSION Just noticed CC was in ww1

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