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Frame enlargement: Silent Era image collection.
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Billy Edwards
and the Unknown
Also known as [Billy Edwards Boxing], [Billy Edwards and Warwick], [A Boxing Bout]
(1894) United States of America
B&W : Short film
Directed by W.K.L. Dickson
Cast: Billy Edwards [himself], [?] ? Warwick [himself]
Edison Manufacturing Company production; distributed by Raff & Gammon. / Cinematography by [?] William Heise? / No copyright registration. / Kinetoscope 35mm spherical 1.33:1 format. / Early Edison subject used as part of the premiere presentation of Edison’s Vitascope motion picture projection system. Early Kinetograph camera films were shot at approximately 48 frames per second. [?] Charles Musser indicates that the production was shot circa late January or early February 1895, yet the film was listed in the Raff & Gammon October 1894 catalog.
Documentary: Sports: Boxing match.
Synopsis: [Raff & Gammon catalog, October 1894, page ?] Billy Edwards and the Unknown, Boxing Bout in 5 rounds. (This well known and prominent pugilist, with an antagonist scienced and skillful, gives one of the most, if not the most, spirited and exciting exhibitions of sparring ever taken for the Kinetoscope.)
Survival status: Print exists in the George Eastman Museum film archive [35mm positive].
Current rights holder: Public domain [USA].
Keywords: Athletes: Boxers - Sports: Boxing
Listing updated: 21 March 2012.
References: Film viewing : Ramsaye-Million p. 236a : FilmHistory-3-3 p. 252 : Website-GEM.
Home video: DVD.
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