International contest for the heavyweight championship--Squires vs. Burns, Ocean View, Cal., July 4th, 1907 /

This is an actual film of the heavyweight championship prize fight between Canadian, Tommy Burns (defender) and Australian, Bill Squires. The fight was labeled the shortest and fiercest prize fight on record up to that time.
H96711 U.S Copyright Office
Copyright: Miles Brothers; 18Jul07; H96711.
[Cameraman, Herbert J. Miles?].
Credit for cameraman from Niver's Early motion pictures, p. 161.
Duration: 2:40 at 18 fps.
Paper print shelf number (LC 2979) was changed when the paper prints were re-housed.
Filmed July 4, 1907 in Ocean View, California (now Albany, California).
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as digital files.
Source used: Niver, Kemp R., Early motion pictures, 1985, p. 161-162.
Early motion pictures : the Paper Print Collection in the Library of Congress / by Kemp R. Niver. Library of Congress. 1985.