[The fall of Przemysl] - Public domain image related to music prformance, drawing
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Three men film a battle scene using steaming tea kettles and cauldrons to supply the smoke. Hats, helmets, and weapons rest on poles to take the place of live soldiers, but are sufficiently obscured by the steam. A man controls movement of a flimsy castle, which teeters.
Inscribed above image: Making Cinema Films.
Inscribed in red ink lower right: Note, Reproductions of this drawing must carry underline: "Copyright in U.S. of America."
Published title in Puck: Making war movies I: the fall of Ivangorod.
Signed, lower left: W / Heath / Robinson.
Stamped above and below image: Important Notice: Every reproduction of this drawing must carry the following underline: Copyright in U.S.A. by W. Heath Robinson.
Stamped and inscribed on verso: The Right to Reproduce this Drawing Belongs to Puck Pub. Corporation (in U.S.A.), Strand Magazine (British Empire serial rts).
Title inscribed below image.
Bequest and gift; Caroline and Erwin Swann; 1974; (DLC/PP-1974:232.1188)
Published in: Puck, Week ending August 14, 1915.
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