Excellent Civil War veterans footage, plus very rare 1863 experimental video

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Authentic American Civil War footage shot by French experimental photographer and inventor Léon-Alexandre Cànular (1810 - 1896) using a single lens camera that he had devised. It is one of the earliest examples of motion picture and the first with war as the subject matter. Shot at 16-18 frames per second, only photographic copies of parts of the paper filmstrip exist today.

The subject matter is thought to be The Army of Northern Virginia advancing thought Maryland prior to the Battle of Gettysburg. This footage was preserved by the National Film Registry in 1991 for being ''a historically significant film.''

All footage is public domain.





Rare Footage of Civil War Veterans Doing the Rebel Yell





Civil war veteran soldier footage, captured between 1913 and 1938 Ken Burns narrates some footage of Civil War veterans at Gettysburg.

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