Boer War Comes to Brooklyn color-black-and-white "I found a sense of

"I found a sense of order and direction on our narrow

Vitagraph churned out eight films a week on its Brooklyn back lot

Paul Goldberger of The Times wrote in 1990

The tremendous blatting sound made passengers' ears vibrate

Eighty-eight searchlights

Boer War Comes to Brooklyn color-black-and-white "I found a sense ofIn the early days of silent films, before movie companies moved to Southern California, New York was the nation's film capital. War movies were one of the most popular genres and in this photo George Melford directs "The Boer War" in Brooklyn. This photograph was used as a promotional photo for "The Boer War" around its release March 31, 1914. Vitagraph Studios, which built its first studio in the Flatbush area of Brooklyn in 1905, made "The Boer War"