A British battery emplacement fires a gun and the gun collapses; its wheels fall from the hillside as a contingent of Boers attack.
It's the third in a series of movies released by Pathe about the Second Boer War. This, like the other I have seen, is very short by modern standards, barely a minute long at the speed it was presented at; even so, it seemed to be cranked too slow. This was the standard for the era, the amount of film that many cameras could hold.
It's unusual for the era that the positioning of the camera is below the hill, pointing up. This makes the action easier to follow in its totality, but is unusual for the era, when the film makers preferred to shoot their subjects at the same height as the camera.
It's the third in a series of movies released by Pathe about the Second Boer War. This, like the other I have seen, is very short by modern standards, barely a minute long at the speed it was presented at; even so, it seemed to be cranked too slow. This was the standard for the era, the amount of film that many cameras could hold.
It's unusual for the era that the positioning of the camera is below the hill, pointing up. This makes the action easier to follow in its totality, but is unusual for the era, when the film makers preferred to shoot their subjects at the same height as the camera.