Author: CINEMA
Title: The Great Fight. Corbett v. Fitzsimmons for $50,000 and the Championship of the World. Reprinted from the Sportsman of March 18, 1897.
Description: The Sportsman, 1897. Small 8vo. pp. 23> two portraits. Wrappers. "On March 17, 1897, in an open-air arena in Carson City, Nevada, "Gentleman" Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons fought for the heavyweight championship of the world. The fourteen-round contest was recorded in its entirety by film pioneer Enoch Rector from inside a huge, human-powered camera called the "Veriscope," the forgotten Neanderthal at the dawn of cinema history. Rector's movie premiered in New York City two months later. Known today as The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight, it was the world's first feature-length film." Bright Lights Film Journal March 17th, 2017. [accessed on-line] There were 165,000 pictures, two miles of film on six reels.

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