Jeffries-Johnson world's championship boxing contest (Motion picture)
- [The 1910 Jeffries-Johnson fight was the most talked-about, most publicized sporting event in American history, and was seen by nearly the whole country as a symbolic race war. The two fighters split the $101,000.00 prize unevenly, the winner getting 60 percent. It was a staggering amount for the time. The film of the fight was banned in many places, and the controversy surrounding it caused Congress to ban the distribution of all prizefight films across state lines from 1912 until 1940. At three minutes per round, with a one minute break between rounds, the actual fight lasted about 60 minutes. Sources give the running time of the original film as 100-120 minutes, which probably includes pre- and post-fight footage. Excerpts from the fight are included in documentary films, and are viewable online, but sources are silent about the availability of the original, full-length film.]
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found: Unforgivable blackness : the rise and fall of Jack Johnson, 2004(a Florentine Films production; directed by Ken Burns; contains footage of the Jeffries-Johnson world's championship boxing contest)
found: Eagan, D. America's film legacy, 2010:p. 22 (Jeffries-Johnson world's championship boxing contest; produced by J. Stuart Blackton; The J. and J. Company, 1910; 120 minutes; Unforgivable blackness includes excerpts from the fight)
found: Library of Congress WWW site, viewed July 26, 2016National Film Preservation Board, film registry, brief descriptions (Jeffries-Johnson world's championship boxing contest; A signal moment in American race relations, this recording of the July 4 heavyweight title fight between champion Jack Johnson and former champion James J. Jeffries became the most widely discussed and written-about motion picture made before 1915's The birth of a nation)
found: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912, 1953:p. 30 (Jeffries-Johnson world's championship boxing contest, held at Reno, Nevada, July 4, 1910; photographed by the Vitagraph Co. of America; ©J. & J. Co.; 7 reels; includes rounds 1-15 and finals)
found: Internet movie database WWW site, viewed July 26, 2016(Jeffries-Johnson world's championship boxing contest, held at Reno, Nevada, July 4, 1910; 100 minutes; produced by J. Stuart Blackton; production company, J & J Co.; released by the Vitagraph Company of America, July 6, 1910)
found: Wikipedia WWW site, viewed July 26, 2016(The Johnson-Jeffries fight; a 1910 American film report on the heavyweight championship boxing fight between Jack Johnson and James J. Jeffries in Reno, Nevada; In 2005, the film of the Jeffries-Johnson "Fight of the Century" was entered into the United States National Film Registry)
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- [The 1910 Jeffries-Johnson fight was the most talked-about, most publicized sporting event in American history, and was seen by nearly the whole country as a symbolic race war. The two fighters split the $101,000.00 prize unevenly, the winner getting 60 percent. It was a staggering amount for the time. The film of the fight was banned in many places, and the controversy surrounding it caused Congress to ban the distribution of all prizefight films across state lines from 1912 until 1940. At three minutes per round, with a one minute break between rounds, the actual fight lasted about 60 minutes. Sources give the running time of the original film as 100-120 minutes, which probably includes pre- and post-fight footage. Excerpts from the fight are included in documentary films, and are viewable online, but sources are silent about the availability of the original, full-length film.]
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