Boxing Match; or, Glove Contest

Boxing Match; or, Glove Contest

Screenshot from the film
Directed by Birt Acres
Produced by
Starring
  • Sergeant-Instructor Barrett
  • Sergeant Pope
Cinematography Birt Acres
Release date(s) 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.[1]

Current status

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

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