The Bioscope Festival of Lost Films: Jeffries-Sharkey Fight

Frederica · Post by **Frederica** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 7:25 pm

http://bioscopic.wordpress.com/2009/01/ ... /#comments

Unexpected eye-candy going on here.

Fred

Post by **silentfilm** » Wed Jan 07, 2009 9:20 pm

Plus you can actually view a sort-of lost film. The "pirate" Vitagraph version still survives and is available on a YouTube link there. I wonder which archive that this unauthorized version exists in.

The story of how the pirate version was made is hilarious. You can read about it in Raymond Fielding's The American Newsreel: 1911-1967.

urbanora · Post by **urbanora** » Thu Jan 08, 2009 6:03 am

I think it's held by the Library of Congress, but the YouTube clip is a 1950s? documentary that incorporates the Vitagraph sequence. If it's not at the LOC it'll be at ESPN, which bought up the Big Fights boxing film collection amassed by Jim Jacobs, who was obsessive about collecting early boxing films.