Listen to the moment the guns fell silent ending World War I

<i>So this book is a sidewalk strewn with junk, trash which I throw over my shoulders as I travel in time back to November eleventh, nineteen hundred and twenty-two.<p>It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind.</i><p>Vonnegut, &quot;Breakfast of Champions&quot;

Like others I found the recording profound at first. The birds at the end cheapened the experience for me because they made me question the authenticity of the sounds heard and whether this was leaning closer to an actual representation or an artistic interpretation. Perhaps somewhere in between.<p>Assuming that this is leaning closer to an actual representation of the sounds heard on that morning (with the dubious addition of some birds for &quot;dramatic effect&quot;) one thing that I found particularly interesting is the noise&#x2F;buzz that can be heard immediately after the guns are silenced. Could it be that this noise represents the people cheering for the end of war captured by the crude recording device of oil drums + film?

I didn&#x27;t find the audio on that page, but a link to it here: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codatocoda.bandcamp.com&#x2F;album&#x2F;iwm-ww1-armistice-interpretation-sound-installation" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;codatocoda.bandcamp.com&#x2F;album&#x2F;iwm-ww1-armistice-inte...</a><p>I want to know if the birds were actually recorded at the end, or if it was added for dramatic presentation.

Listen to a <i>recreation</i> of the moment the guns fell silent ending World War I.

Spoiler alert! It is fake. It is &quot;interpretation&quot;.

Birds sing seconds after ear-blasting gun shots. Really?

&quot;Look mommy...there&#x27;s an airplane up in the sky...&quot;

I understand that this is an interpretation, but fascinating nonetheless. Are there other examples (or archives) of this type of historical recordings?

Not only it is a recreation, but also an exposition conducted almost 2 years ago, in commemoration of the end of WWI.

As long as we&#x27;re discussing fictional works about WWI, two great movies are La Grande Illusion and Paths of Glory.