[Cannon fired from Fort Moultrie]

Abstract

Title card: "Students drill on vanishing guns, Ft Moultrie, SC - Youths learn to be cannoneers on disappearing coast defense battery" / VS big coastal artillery guns rise into position; numerous shirtless young men load a large artillery shell into the breech of a cannon, the powder case cartridge is inserted, and the gun is raised; the gun fires and the recoil drives it out of he picture; a good shot of the barrel being aimed directly at the camera / Note: exact day not known