Men Boxing

Men Boxing is an American short film from 1891. It is a silent film in black and white. The film was produced and directed by William Dickson andWilliam Heise for the Edison Manufacturing Company. In the film play two Edison employees with boxing gloves who pretend to be sparring in a boxing ring. The 3.7 feet of film was shot sometime in may or June 1891 in the Edison Laboratory in West Orange Photographic building (New Jersey) with the Edison-Dickson-Heise kinetograaf with experimental horizontal input. The film was shot by a round opening on 19 mm-film with only one side perforations. It was an experimental demonstration and is never publicly displayed. A copy of the film is kept in the film archive of theLibrary of Congress as part of the Gordon Hendricks-collection.