Boxing Match; or, Glove Contest (1896)

Directed by

Birt Acres

Genre

documentary film, silent film, boxing film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1 min

Rating

3.8 of 10 from 4 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two soldiers box a staged match with one round, a break, and a knockout. It is a short silent documentary from 1896.

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What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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