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00:00 When Lord Roberts visited Manchester on the 10th October 1901, he was there for two reasons.
00:13 Firstly to distribute medals to the Boer War veterans and secondly to unveil the statue
00:18 of Queen Victoria in Piccadilly.
00:33 So, unparalleled was the success of Lord Roberts' opening that a woman fainted in the
00:56 crowd.
01:25 Lord Roberts was one of the great Boer War generals, including Buller and Baden-Powell,
01:31 all of whom visited Manchester in 1901.
01:45 Richland Canyon were at this point operating a developing printing service for A.D. Thomas.
01:51 By May 1901, A.D. Thomas had used Manchester as the centre of his operations for cinematographic
01:57 activities.
02:11 According to reports in the Sherman's newspapers, three other cameramen were filming this event,
02:15 however this is the only film that has survived.
02:32 Thomas Edison actually advertised this as illustrating the world history from day by
02:36 day.
02:37 The finest animated pictures ever seen in Manchester.
02:40 War in Manchester.
02:41 Come and see yourselves on the screen as living history.
02:56 And now we see, and we believe, that is the great Cecil Hepworth of Hepworth's photo
03:00 company who actually used to work with A.D. Thomas in Richland Canyon and by 1901 had
03:06 his own company distributing films.
03:11 [MUSIC]