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Men Boxing is a american film of genre Documentary directed by William Kennedy Laurie Dickson released in USA on 30 april 1891

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Released in USA 30 april 1891
OriginUSA
Genres Documentary,    Action
Rating47% 2.3515852.3515852.3515852.3515852.351585

Men Boxing is an 1891 American short black-and-white silent actuality 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.



^ "Men Boxing". US Library of Congress: American Memory. Retrieved 2011-05-25.

^ "Men Boxing". Silent Era: Progressive Silent Film List. Retrieved 2011-05-25.
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