A dramatised Boer War short made by the Lancashire firm of Mitchell and Kenyon. It shows two Boers sneaking up unobserved on a British soldier. He is stabbed in the back and the Boers proceed to rob him of his cartridge belt and valuables. The attack ...
Although ‘fake’ Boer War films were prevalent in the early ... by June 1900 ‘the Boer war no longer held the centre of attention ... is central to a huge proportion of these Boer War narratives – often effectively assuming ...
British soldiers are engaged in a fire- ... by James Barker, late of the Department of Information Retrieval, Imperial War Museum, in work for the television series 'Flashback'. ...
Lord Kitchener on his return from the Boer War, inspects troops on Southampton quayside. Amongst his aides are Generals John French and Ian Hamilton.
One of ... Education’, Social Gazette, 14 May 1904, 1.
War Cry, 1904, including:
‘India ...
A fictional drama from the Zulu Wars.
A British sentry guards a British camp. ... the representational structure of earlier Boer War fiction films. For example, the ... LatestThing”: The Boer War Cinema and Visual Culture in Britain ...
In their 1905-06 ...
Tourists are carried ashore at M'Benga on the backs of Fijian natives (18). Several men perform the Haka, the traditional war-dance (35). Water is poured over hot rocks; yams are placed on the rocks, covered, and left to steam (122). ...
Brownlow, Kevin, The War, the West and the Wilderness (London: Secker and Warburg, 1979).
Feilding Star, 16 January 1909 ...