Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph

Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph
Produced byWilliam K.L. Dickson
StarringJames J. Corbett
Peter Courtney
CinematographyWilliam Heise
Distributed byEdison Manufacturing Company
F.M. Prescott
Release date
  • November 17, 1894 (1894-11-17)
Running time
6, 1 minute rounds
CountryUnited States
LanguageSilent

Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph (also known as Edison Kinetoscopic Record of Boxers and The Corbett-Courtney Fight) is an 1894 American short black-and-white silent film produced by William K.L. Dickson and starring James J. Corbett. It was only the second boxing match to be filmed, following The Leonard-Cushing Fight which had been filmed by Dickson on June 14, 1894.[1]

The films are listed as "1st Round," "2nd Round," "3rd Round," "4th Round," "5th Round," and "6th Round".[2] Only one partial round of the original six rounds remains intact.[3]

  1. ^ "Rare and Old Boxing Film Database". Retrieved 2007-03-17.
  2. ^ "The Thomas Edison Film Library". Archived from the original on 2006-12-09. Retrieved 2007-03-17.
  3. ^ "Library of Congress American Memory". Retrieved 2007-03-17.