Men Boxing
About Men Boxing
Two Edison employees, in gloves, pretend to spar in a ring while the experimental camera runs. The fragment is about five seconds.
Cast & crew
More about Men Boxing
William K. L. Dickson and William Heise made it between May and June 1891. Twelve feet of film ran through the Edison-Dickson-Heise horizontal-feed kinetograph, 3/4 inch wide, with one row of sprockets and a round aperture. It was a laboratory test and was never shown to the public. A print is in the Library of Congress, Gordon Hendricks collection. A copy is on Wikimedia Commons.
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Dickson and Heise used the horizontal-feed kinetograph and a round mask on 3/4-inch film.
Preservation
A print is in the Library of Congress Gordon Hendricks collection. It was never released.
Notes
- The boxers are Edison staff, not prizefighters.
- The film is 19mm wide, not the later 35mm gauge.
- Wikidata lists Dickson as director. The English Wikipedia credits Dickson and Heise together.
Scenes
- Two men in gloves trade a few posed blows inside the round frame.
Also available
- Wikimedia Commons (Men Boxing)
