The Seaforth Highlanders' Return to Cairo after the Fall of Omdurman and Khartoum
Plot: In this brief film, Cairo becomes the stage for Lord Kitchener's celebrations after the fall of Khartoum. Possibly filmed by John 'Mad Jack' Benett-Stanford on behalf of the Warwick Trading Company, it is a forerunner of the military films that would shortly flood the screens of Great Britain with the outbreak of the Boer War
Release Date:
Saturday, January 1 1897
127 years ago
127 years ago