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Based on a scene from Shakespeare's play: Macbeth, king of Scotland, is being challenged by forces led by Macduff. Young Siward comes to confront the king, but Macbeth kills him easily. Then Macduff himself arrives. The two rivals exchange words, and then begin a deadly fight. Of historical interest because of its status as one of the earliest attempts in the United States to put Shakespeare into moving images. This clip was a part of a series called "Fights of Nations," which was evidently designed to document various styles of combat. The cameraman was the famous Billy Bitzer (1872-1944), a longtime associate of D.W. Griffith. Bitzer is credited with the technical achievements in such classics as Birth of a Nation and Broken Blossoms. Somehow Shakespeare's play got entangled in the Fights of the Nations series. But in those wonderful days all kinds of things surfaced in the movies