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BIRTH AND INFANCY
First CIiampionship-FigJit Picture. Here is the battle between James J. ( "Gentleman Jim" ) Corbett and Robert Fitzsimmons, at Carson Citv, March 17, 1897. Enoch J. Rector photographed it on film for the Veriscope, a machine built for the occasion. Notice the copyright sign painted on the edge of the ring.
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In 1898 E. H. Amet built a scale model of Santiago Harbor and in it staged and photographed the sinking of Admiral Cervera's fleet by the U. S. Atlantic Squadron during the Spanish-American War. Since the battle had been fought at night, Amet claimed he had photographed it six miles away, using a special supersensitive "moonlight" film! The public believed him!
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In 1899 William A. Brady, on behalf of the American Mutoscope & Biograph Company, filmed the first fight picture made under artificial light— the Jeffries
Sharkey championship battle. The heat of about four hundred arc lamps above the ring almost cooked the combatants. And the situation was not improved by the discovery of Vitagraph cameramen in the twentieth row, bootlegging pictures. The Vitagraph men got away with their fives and film, but the pictures did them little good, for Brady got out an injunction against them. This is from the pirated film.
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We of today think of the documentary film as a modern innovation. As a matter of fact, Edwin S. Porter anticipated it with The Life of an American Fireman, produced in the early 1900's. Porter was the first to use the "cut-back"— showing shots of the imperiled mother and child interspersed with shots of the fire department dashing to the rescue.