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The Gordon Sisters Boxing

19012 minUnited States
Documentary

Synopsis

Two women perform a boxing exhibition before a painted outdoor backdrop. The camera records their sparring as a compact display of speed, movement and theatrical sporting skill.

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Wikimedia Commons
Original language
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified.
This copy runs
1:39
Subtitles
No subtitle track in this language

No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. No subtitle track in this language.

Languages and subtitles

No subtitle track in this language

Wikimedia Commons · Thomas Edison · Public domain

This copy runs shorter than the reference runtime. Editing and playback speed can differ between editions.

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Historical context

Edison's catalog promoted the performers as champion women boxers. The staged exhibition is an early surviving screen record of women in a boxing act.

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Work catalogued as public domain in the United States.

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