Attack on a China Mission - Bluejackets to the Rescue

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Attack on a China Mission - Bluejackets to the Rescue


Fictional treatment of a contemporary atrocity story from the 1900 Boxer rebellion in China.

James Williamson's fictional account of an attack on a Christian mission house by Boxer rebels was made in two versions. The first used a single camera position to show the attack on the missionaries outside their house. Soon after, he added scenes at the beginning to show the arrival of the Boxers and cut a reverse shot into the middle to show the rescue by British navy forces.

DRAMA. A missionary defends his wife and child and a young lady against attack by Chinese Boxers. He is killed but the others are saved by the intervention of British sailors... (incomplete).


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