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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
Boxing Match; or, Glove Contest movie poster
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

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Given its age, this short film is available to freely download from the Internet.

References

Boxing Match; or, Glove Contest Wikipedia