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OPEN CLASSIC CINEMA · 1688

Capture of Boer Battery by British

19001 minUnited States

Synopsis

Soldiers exchange fire in a compact reconstruction of a Boer War engagement. Smoke and advancing figures present the conflict as a brief battlefield spectacle.

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Video edition: Wikimedia Commons
Original language: No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs: 1:00
Subtitles: No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

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Wikimedia Commons · James H. White · Public domain

Behind the scenes

James H. White made this staged scene for Edison in West Orange, New Jersey. It depicts a war fought in southern Africa without having been filmed at the battle.

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