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This presentation features 68 motion pictures produced between 1898 and 1901
of the Spanish-American War and the subsequent Philippine Revolution. The
Spanish-American War was the first U.S. war in which the motion picture camera
played a role. These films were made by the Edison Manufacturing Company and the
American Mutoscope & Biograph Company and consist of actualities filmed in
the U.S., Cuba, and the Philippines, showing troops, ships, notable figures, and
parades, as well as reenactments of battles and other war-time events. The
Special Presentation presents the motion pictures in chronological order
together with brief essays that provide a historical context for their
filming.
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Special
Presentation
The Motion Picture Camera
Goes to War:
The Spanish-American War and the Philippine
Revolution
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