''Boxing Match; or, Glove Contest'' is an 1896
British short
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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.
Current status
Given its age, this short film is available to freely download from the Internet.
See also
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List of boxing films
This is a list of films about boxing, featuring notable sports films where boxing plays a central role in the development of the plot.
The Patent Leather Kid
1927
A self-centered boxer learns the meaning of patriotism on the battlefield durin ...
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1890s British films
British black-and-white films
British boxing films
British silent short films
British short documentary films
Films directed by Birt Acres
1890s rediscovered films
1890s short documentary films
Rediscovered British films
British sports documentary films
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