Shooting Captured Insurgents

Ughhhh

some sources say this was a reenactment.

A "reenactment" meant to dovetail with the sensational accounts being published in the papers at the time to gin up support for the Spanish-American War. Naturally, the Edison cameramen weren't really going to pack off for a war zone, so this dilapidated building somewhere in New Jersey played the part of Cuba in a few such scenes.

Fantastic

There's not much to this, but it's of interest partly just because it survived and because the co-director is Edwin S. Porter who would go on to direct "The Great Train Robbery".