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Original LanguageEN
Release date1 Nov 1899
StatusReleased
Movie duration1 min / 0:01
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Scottish Troops Leave For South Africa

Movie • 18990:01 hours

An embarkation reportage film from the Boer War, a popular film subject at this time. Soldiers with bicycles appear in this parade. The British Army began using bicycles from the 1880s, to expand from horse transport for men. Supplying bicycles to the the army was considered a positive business move for companies as they began to experience a public decline in sales once bicycles were no longer a novelty and inferior copies began to be marketed. Films such as this would have been seen as having a wider importance.