One minute of 1899 soldiers waving goodbye. Cinema's first viral goodbye.
An actuality film from Oct 1899 of the Colstream Guards departing on the troop ship Gascon for the Boer War in South Africa.
Cinematography
Actual 1899 Lumière footage—literally cinema history.
Production
Real soldiers, real departure, real war they won't survive.
Director
Jules Fuerst
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This is 'actualité' cinema—Lumière's 'factory workers' aesthetic applied to imperial warfare, blurring news and entertainment before those categories existed.
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