While filming a battle between Pancho Villa's rebel forces and federal troops near Ojinaga, cameraman Charles Rosher was captured by government soldiers and brought before their commanding general. Rosher thought he was about to be executed as a spy, and things didn't look too good for him until the Mexican general noticed Rosher's Masonic pin in his lapel. The general then gave Rosher the Masonic greeting; it turned out he was a Mason, too. Instead of being shot as a spy, Rosher was treated as a guest, and was later released after the Mexican government made a deal with the American government that allowed its troops to cross through American territory in order to outflank Villa's forces and attack them from the rear.
American Mutoscope & Biograph Co. has announced plans for a film to be called "Life of Villa", the story behind the making of this film, which was the first documentary film about, and with, Pancho Villa.
There were, as far as is known, four documentaries made about Pancho Villa during his lifetime. This Biograph film is the first of them, and Villa is listed as a "producer" on the original credits.