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Cast: (unknown)

Edison Manufacturing Company production. / Cinematography by W.K.L. Dickson and William Heise. / No copyright registration. / The production was shot circa May-June 1891 in the Edison Laboratory Photographic Building in West Orange, New Jersey, on an experimental horizontal-feed camera with a round aperture and 3/4 inch (19mm) wide film with a single edge row of sprocket perforations. [?] Same as Boxing (1892) or [Boxing Match] (1894)?

Sports: Boxing.

Synopsis: A view of two men (probably Edison employees) with boxing gloves, in a boxing ring. The two men do not actually throw a punch during the course of the film.

Survival status: Print exists in the Library of Congress film archive (Gordon Hendricks collection) [35mm preservation positive, 35mm viewing print (FEC 8059)].

Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].

Keywords: Athletes: Boxers - Experimental motion picture systems - Sports: Boxing

Listing updated: 9 February 2015.

References: Film viewing : Musser-Before p. 31; Musser-Emerge p. 70; Ramsaye-Million p. 70a; Robinson-Parade p. 31 : Website-LoC.

Home video: DVD.