Men Boxing

This documentary fragment serves as an experimental exercise in early cinematography. It was captured using a horizontal-feed kinetograph camera and viewer developed by Edison, Dickson, and Heise, utilizing a specialized film width of three-quarters of an inch.

Produced by Edison Studios in the United States, the one-minute film was released on April 30, 1891. It was co-directed by William Heise and William K.L. Dickson, who also served as a producer. This project marks the first of 24 films directed by Heise and the first of 14 directed by Dickson, with both men later collaborating on Horse Shoeing in 1893. On TMDB, the film holds a rating of 4.2/10 based on 52 votes.