The fragments that remain of this film consist of battle sequences, outtakes etc that look like someone swept an editing room floor and just jammed the sweepings into a film can. However this was yet another British silent film that marked out the importance of Britain in the formative years of silent cinema. Said to have been longer than an hour in running time this film would have been significantly longer than anything else of the same period. Looking at the remaining footage also shows a film that was ambitious in scale, with battle sequences featuring hundreds of extras, horses (alive and dead) and lots of pyrotechnics (remember the period though).
Of course the footage does not make for a film but it is interesting viewing because it is a reminder of the important role that Britain played in early cinema and also the fact that, of thousands of films made in the UK in this period, only a few hundred have survived to be stored by the BFI. Interesting stuff then a p1sstake came out a few months later (in the style of modern film spoofs like the Scary Movie series) and ironically enough it has survived!
Of course the footage does not make for a film but it is interesting viewing because it is a reminder of the important role that Britain played in early cinema and also the fact that, of thousands of films made in the UK in this period, only a few hundred have survived to be stored by the BFI. Interesting stuff then a p1sstake came out a few months later (in the style of modern film spoofs like the Scary Movie series) and ironically enough it has survived!
