" In Philadelphia in early 1916, Durborough arrived in the Stutz, driving it up and down in front of the theater where the film was showing, firing a gun to get attention." shootingthegreatwar.blogspot.com
"On the Firing Line with the Germans" (USA, 1915) by Wilbur H. Durborough and cameraman Irving Guy Ries
The Stutz Bearcat was America's first sports car. An excellent choice for this documentary. Kind of like a Bently Mulsanne with gold trim. Great story from Jay Leno on his older model. Not much info on the filmmaker after this film. 
Wilber Harold Durborough took his Graflex camera to film Pancho Villa in 1914 for Newspaper Enterprise Association then shot his German war film right after. He then toured with the film for a year. Then disappeared. He died at age 63 in 1946 in Pasadena. shootingthegreatwar.blogspot.com/2017/06/wilbur…
There is an unpublished fictional (?) autobiography of Durborough's early years in the LOC lccn.loc.gov/mm2011085592and a mention that he worked in Chicago as a correspondent after his two trips. Gifted by his son Brian in 2011. Kinda reminds me of Reds.
John Reed who wrote an excellent book "Ten Days that Shook The World" and Durborough are now out of sync with history and perhaps subject to Stockholm Syndrome...but both captured moments in history that were swept away by popular media. amazon.ca/Ten-days-that-…
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