New York Police Boat Patrol Capturing Pirates 1903

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Photographed May 10, 1903. Thomas A. Edison, Inc. Camera: Edwin S. Porter, James Blair Smith This was probably filmed in the southern part of the Upper New York Bay looking towards the Narrows, with Fort Lafayette partly visible in the far background. The subject is a simulated capture of three ''pirates'' in a rowboat by the police gunboat ''Patrol.'' Puffs of smoke appear as the gunboat fires several rounds from the bow cannon, which can be clearly seen later in a side view of the boat [1:04] ...