| Boxing Match; or, Glove Contest | |
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Screenshot from the film |
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| Directed by | Birt Acres |
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| Cinematography | Birt Acres |
| Release date(s) | 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.[1]
Given its age, this short film is available to freely download from the Internet.