Lord Roberts, the new Commander-in-Chief, arrives at Cape Town harbour, South Africa, 10th January 1900.
An honour guard of Infantry marches into position beside the dock, past Roberts' ship, the SS Dunnottar Castle. ...
Lord Roberts, the new Commander-in-Chief, arrives at Cape Town harbour, South Africa, 10th January 1900.
An honour guard of Infantry marches into position beside the dock, past Roberts' ship, the SS Dunnottar Castle. ...
British fictional propaganda film on a Boer defeat in the Second Boer War, 27th February 1900.
The film depends for its effect on stop-action camera tricks. It opens with 'President Kruger' of the Transvaal Republic ...
Reception at Rotorua, June 1901. Prime Minister Seddon welcomes the Duke and Duchess of York.
Opening with a crowd scene at Rotorua on 14 June 1901, the camera displays the pageant and shows Maori groups dancing. The next shot shows ...
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 ...
Dramatised Boer War short made by the Lancashire firm of Mitchell and Kenyon. It shows two nurses saved from the clutches of murderous Boers by the last-minute intervention of British troops. It was filmed on the outskirts of Blackburn.
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ACTUALITY. Single panning shot of the Grand Harbour, Valletta, Malta.
180 degree panning shot, left to right, taken from a high vantage point and showing stone walls, then small boats (city walls appearing in background), larger craft (citadel in ...
Fictional piece depicting an incident in the Second Boer War, 1900.
British soldiers are engaged in a fire-fight at close range with Boers on high ground above them. One of the Boers gets close enough to a British ...
A procession of decorated elephants with howdahs, and troops on foot and horseback. This appears to be the Delhi Durbar of January, 1903.
No title. A decorated street with banners carrying the words `Upholders of the Empire', `Welcome Home', with a railway station in the background (4). Part of a procession, consisting of an open carriage and cavalry, passes through a ...
ACTUALITY. The departure of Joseph Chamberlain, Secretary of State for the Colonies, for South Africa to sign the Boer peace treaty.
MS Chamberlain alighting from a railway carriage with his wife; they are greeted by a group of ...
Scenes at the annual Hull fair.
Replacement title (0.07). Man at boxing booth gesturing to unseen crowd.The man wearing a light coloured jersey. In the background is the lower portion of a boxing painting with the name Burge and ...