Men Boxing

Men Boxing is an 1891 American short silent film, produced and directed by William K. L. Dickson and William Heise for the Edison Manufacturing Company, featuring two Edison employees with boxing gloves, pretending to spar in a boxing ring. The 12 feet of film was shot between May and June 1891 at the Edison Laboratory Photographic Building in West Orange, New Jersey, on the Edison-Dickson-Heise experimental horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer, through a round aperture on 3/4 inch (19mm) wide film with a single edge row of sprocket perforations, as an experimental demonstration and was never publicly shown. A print has been preserved in the US Library of Congress film archive as part of the Gordon Hendricks collection.^[1][2]

Men Boxing
Screenshot from the film
Directed by	William K. L. Dickson William Heise
Produced by	William K. L. Dickson William Heise
Cinematography	William K. L. Dickson William Heise
Production company	Edison Manufacturing Company
Release date	1891 (1891)
Running time	5 seconds
Country	United States
Language	Silent

A looping version of the film

See also

• The Boxing Cats (Prof. Welton's), an 1894 film also directed by Dickson and Heise