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    The CorbettFitzsimmons Fight is an 1897 documentary film directed by Enoch J. Rector depicting the 1897 boxing match between James J. Corbett and Bob...
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    later that year as The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight, the longest film ever released at the time. Devastated by the loss of his title, Corbett did everything...
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    never have used the phrase. The entire fight was filmed by Enoch J. Rector and released to cinemas as The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight, the longest film ever...
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    Corbett-Jeffries Fight and The Jeffries-Sharkey Fight (1899). Some consider the 100-minute The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight to be the first documentary...
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  • Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (also known as Edison Kinetoscopic Record of Boxers and The Corbett-Courtney Fight) is an 1894 American short...
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  • round by Bob Fitzsimmons. At the time of the fight, Sharkey was unbeaten in 24 trips to the ring with 20 knockouts. He had already fought Corbett on June 24...
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    technology to shoot an hour-and-a-half-long documentary film, The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight, in 1897. Woodville Latham applied for a patent on June 1, 1896...
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  • Veriscope (category Film production companies of the United States)
    produced The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897), directed by Enoch J. Rector. Veriscope was a large, human-powered camera created by Enoch Rector. The camera...
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  • The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight, a documentary directed by Enoch J. Rector. The first film shot in widescreen. At an hour and 40 minutes, it is the first...
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  • title fight for the World Heavyweight championship was held in Carson City, Nevada between "Gentleman" Jim Corbett and "Ruby" Robert Fitzsimmons. The local...
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  • on the celluloid film. In subsequent years, screenings of actualities and newsreels proved to be profitable. In 1897, The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight was...
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    stop the fight Judge Roy Bean, a local justice of the peace who promoted the fight Fitzsimmons vs. Sharkey, the next major bout fought by Fitzsimmons Braudaway...
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  • invention. Using this technique, Rector created the 90-minute documentary film The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897), filmed in an early widescreen process...
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    heavyweight championship fight between "Gentleman Jim" Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons is coming to Carson City, Nevada at exactly the same time outlaw Brett...
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  • (1943) Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (1894) The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897) The Core (2003) Coriolanus (2011) Corky Romano (2001) The Corn...
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    used for The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897). This was not only the longest film that had been released to date at 100 minutes, but also the first widescreen...
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     94. Hawley, Samuel (March 27, 2017). "The Birth of the Feature Film – 120 Years Ago: The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897)". Bright Lights Film Journal....
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    The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight. Using pioneering film-looping technology, Enoch J. Rector presented the entirety of a famous 1897 prize-fight on cinema screens...
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  • featuring notable sports films where boxing plays a central role in the development of the plot. Martial arts portal List of sports films List of highest-grossing...
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    Tom Sharkey (category Irish emigrants to the United States)
    heavyweight title until Corbett resumed his fighting career, who was recognized as the champion until he was knocked out by Fitzsimmons in a title bout. Sharkey...
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    Goes to Washington, Why We Fight, It's a Wonderful Life Wilfred Jackson: Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (sequence director), The Old Mill, Pinocchio (sequence...
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  • Days That Shook the World (1928) dir. Sergei Eisenstein Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) dir. Sergio Leone The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight (1897) dir. Enoch...
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    had the fight gone the distance. However, Corbett was knocked out cold from a left to the jaw in the 23rd round of the scheduled 25-round fight. Jeffries...
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  • from the Chronophotographe format from 1888, to mid-20th century formats such as the 1953 CinemaScope format, to more recent formats such as the 1992...
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  • list of the earliest American films released in the 1890s. 1890 in the United States 1891 in the United States 1892 in the United States 1893 in the United...
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  • made by Biograph (US 1897-1900), 68 mm, 1.375:1, non-perf. The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight - Enoch J. Rector - Veriscope USA 1897, 63 mm, 1.65:1, 5 perf...
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    for the heavyweight title. Corbett announced his return to the ring shortly thereafter, at which time the championship claims of Maher, Fitzsimmons, and...
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    Corbett. Brady produced The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight in 1897. Although Corbett ultimately lost, the match ran for over an hour and a half, and the documentary...
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    List of incomplete or partially lost films (category Pages using the JsonConfig extension)
    from the original on June 27, 2023. "Leonard-Cushing fight". Library of Congress. Retrieved January 15, 2021. "Corbett and Courtney before the Kinetograph"...
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    and writer. During the silent film era she became one of the first great celebrities of the cinema and a popular icon known to the public as "America's...
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