Men Boxing is an 1891 American short silent film, produced and directed by William K. L. Dickson and William Heise for the Edison Manufacturing Company, featuring two Edison employees with boxing gloves, pretending to spar in a boxing ring. The 12 feet of film was shot between May and June 1891 at the Edison Laboratory Photographic Building in West Orange, New Jersey, on the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, through a round aperture on 3/4 inch (19mm) wide film with a single edge row of sprocket perforations, as an experimental demonstration and was never publicly shown. A print has been preserved in the US Library of Congress film archive as part of the Gordon Hendricks collection.[1][2]
| Men Boxing | |
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 Screenshot from the film | |
| Directed by | William K. L. Dickson William Heise |
| Produced by | William K. L. Dickson William Heise |
| Cinematography | William K. L. Dickson William Heise |
Production company | Edison Manufacturing Company |
Release date |
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Running time | 5 seconds |
| Country | United States |
| Language | Silent |
See also
edit- The Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's), an 1894 film also directed by Dickson and Heise
References
edit- ^ "Men Boxing". US Library of Congress: American Memory. Retrieved 2011-05-25.
- ^ "Men Boxing". Silent Era: Progressive Silent Film List. Retrieved 2011-05-25.
External links
edit- Men Boxing at IMDb
- Men Boxing is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive
- Men Boxing on YouTube
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