Thursday, February 1, 2024

Shooting Captured Insurgents (1898)


SHOOTING CAPTURED INSURGENTS  (1898)  ¢ ¢ ¢
    D: George S. Fleming, Edwin S. Porter
A handful of soldiers march some prisoners to a spot by a stone wall, where they shoot them at point-blank range. The action was staged, but it looks real enough, an effect enhanced by the age and decaying condition of the film. It lasts about a minute.