| Boxing Match; or, Glove Contest | |
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| Directed by | Birt Acres |
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| Cinematography | Birt Acres |
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| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | Silent |
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.
See also
References
- "A brief History: A 1896 Fairground Programme - The George Williams Collection". Europa Film Treasures. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
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- 1896 films
- 1896 short films
- 1890s British films
- British black-and-white films
- British boxing films
- British silent short films
- British short documentary films
- Films directed by Birt Acres
- 1890s rediscovered films
- 1890s short documentary films
- Rediscovered British films
- British sports documentary films
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- Pre-1900 film stubs
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