Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (1894)

Directed by

William Heise, William Kennedy Dickson

Genre

documentary film, silent film, boxing film

Country

United States

Runtime

1 min

Rating

4.8 of 10 from 40 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two boxers fight a staged match in a studio. The film shows short rounds of their boxing match.

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What happens

Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (also known as Edison Kinetoscopic Record of Boxers and The Corbett-Courtney Fight) is an 1894 American short black-and-white silent film produced by William K.L. Dickson and starring James J. Corbett. It was only the second boxing match to be filmed, following The Leonard-Cushing Fight which had been filmed by Dickson on June 14, 1894. The films are listed as "1st Round," "2nd Round," "3rd Round," "4th Round," "5th Round," and "6th Round". Only one partial round of the original six rounds remains intact. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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