Boxing Match; or, Glove Contest
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Genre Short, Sport Cinematography Birt Acres Language Silent | 5.2/10 IMDb Director Birt Acres Producer Robert W. Paul Country United Kingdom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Release date 1896 (1896) Initial release January 1896 (United Kingdom) Genres Documentary, Short Film, Silent film, Sports Similar movies Southpaw, Men Boxing, The Boy Next Door, Rocky, How Foolshead Paid His Debts, Boundin\' | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Boxing Match; or, Glove Contest is an 1896 British short black-and-white silent documentary film, produced and directed by Birt Acres for exhibition on Robert W. Paul's peep show Kinetoscopes, featuring a staged boxing match between Sergeant-Instructor Barrett and Sergeant Pope with a round, an interval and a knockout. The film was considered lost until footage from an 1896 Fairground Programme, originally shown in a portable booth at Hull Fair by Midlands photographer George Williams, donated to the National Fairground Archive was identified as being from this film.
Current status
Given its age, this short film is available to freely download from the Internet.
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Boxing Match; or, Glove Contest Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA