Men Boxing

Men Boxing

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 dates
  • 1891 (1891)
Running time
 5 seconds
Country United States
Language Silent
A looping version of the film

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.[1][2]

References

  1. ↑ "Men Boxing". US Library of Congress: American Memory. Retrieved 2011-05-25.
  2. ↑ "Men Boxing". Silent Era: Progressive Silent Film List. Retrieved 2011-05-25.


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