Spoor and Amet are credited for having filmed: the world's first newsreel, a film of the first inauguration of President William McKinley in 1897; the first use of film miniatures ("The Battle of Santiago Bay") in which tin replicas and cigar smoke created the illusion of live war footage; the first to experience local censorship (due to the graphic images of "China's Boxer Rebellion"); the first "fake newsreel" in which Spoor used neighbors to act out battles such as the Battle of San Juan Hill in a local park.