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Boxing Match; or, Glove Contest

Boxing Match; or, Glove Contest
BoxingMatchorGloveContest.jpg
Screenshot from the film
Directed by Birt Acres
Produced by
Starring
  • Sergeant-Instructor Barrett
  • Sergeant Pope
Cinematography Birt Acres
Release date
  • 1896 (1896)
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.

Given its age, this short film is available to freely download from the Internet.



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