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The Biograph in Battle

(1901). It is both the first account in book form by a cinema operator to describe his work, and the first book about the filming of the war. Its subject is the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902, often described as the first media war, because cameras were there to save it.

William Kennedy Laurie Dickson had already earned his place in film history by being the man who actually invented motion pictures, when he worked as an engineer in Edison's laboratory 1883-1895.Dickson left Edison to join the Union KMCD established to operate a system of 70mm film used for both the projection screen (Biograph) and exposure to a blow-peep-show card (the Mutoscope). The American Mutoscope and Biograph Company, as they became, was the leading American rival Edison in the 1890s and has grown its product abroad in an ambitious campaign of proto-globalization film which included the formation of the British Mutoscope and Biograph Company. Dickson went to his homeland in 1897 to serve as chief operator of the camera, filming the new Travel and topics for the most part.The most notable adventure began when he was with Biograph film the Anglo-Boer War.

The Anglo-Boer War (more commonly known as the Boer War) was, like most wars, unclear and unnecessary. It took place between Great Britain (in particular the forces of the British Empire) and the two independent Boer republics of Transvaal and Orange Free State, southern Africa. The immediate cause of conflict is the refusal by the Boers (Afrikaners) to grant political rights to immigrant labor UK, known as the Outlanders, but the real impetus was British imperial ambitions and Gold South Africa and diamonds.The Boers invaded the British colony of Natal, October 11, 1899, and Great Britain launched an invasion force by Sir Redvers Buller. This force met with several embarrassing setbacks, and Buller was replaced by Lord Roberts, who took in Pretoria, June 5, 1900. Many thought the war was over by that point, but it turned into a guerrilla campaign for the next two years, characterized by some of the brutal tactics and the British use of concentration camps for Boer civilians imprisoned until Victory was acquired by Lord Kitchener in May 1902....

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