Army Life; or, How Soldiers Are Made: Mounted Infantry (1900)

Army Life; or, How Soldiers Are Made: Mounted Infantry is an 1900 British short black-and-white silent propaganda actuality film, directed by Robert W. Paul, featuring the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment riding over a plain. The film, which premiered on __jbcdate__1900-09-18|September 18, 1900__end__ at the Alhambra Theatre in London, England, "is all that appears to remain of one of R.W. Paul's most ambitious projects," which, according to Micahael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, "had it survived in a more complete form," "would undoubtedly be considered one of the most important precursors of the modern documentary."

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