THE EIDOLOSCOPE Changing Scenes of Movement on the Drop Curtain of a Theater. [...] Another scene presented, besides the bull fight, which is the longest of all, is a drill of soldiers. This is followed cut to considerable length, and is an interesting transference, but the soldiers that were nearest the camera are made to look like giants in comparison with their fellows a t the opposite end of the line, and occasionally a whole file of marchers bolts from the scene in a manner that is comical...Evening Journal, Jamestown, May 19, 1896, p. 5.
[...] Another picture is the crack regiment of Mexico drilling in their armory, showing the intricate evolutions of the soldiers in all their barefooted splendor, while every step is in perfect time to the music which accompanies...
Boston Post, Boston, Sunday, June 21, 1896, p. 10.
