Expert bag punching
moving image
xxu
United States
American Mutoscope and Biograph Company
1903
1903
monographic
eng
Single: single suspended bag worked with hands, forearms, and elbows (26 ft.) -- Knee: single bag worked off the floor with knees and, occasionally, knuckles (12 ft.) -- Floor: single floor bag worked with hands (14 ft.) -- Double: single suspended bag worked with hands and single floor bag punched with knees simultaneously (12 ft.) -- Aerial: bag suspended from the ceiling rather than the frame worked with hands and elbows (14 ft.) -- Triple: one suspended bag worked by each hand and single floor bag worked with knees simultaneously (9 ft.) -- Double Floor: two floor bags worked with hands, forearms, and elbows (14 ft.).
motion picture
1 reel of 1 (101 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. ref print.
1 reel of 1 (101 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. dupe neg.
1 roll (101 ft.) : si., b&w ; 35 mm. paper pos.
Copyright: American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.; 28July1903; H33886.
Original main title lacking.
Duration: 1:30 at 18 fps.
Materials listed originate from the paper print chosen best copy of two for digitization; for other holdings on this title, see the M/B/RS Paper Print database.
Introduction to Keller's section on "Exhibition bag punching" in W.H. Rothwell's How to punch the bag, 1930: Unbeaten as the World's Champion Amateur Bag Puncher, and holder of the World's Professional Championship (p. 75).
Catalog no. 2432; code name (for telegraphic orders) Garzotte.
NCN046309; Expert bag punching.
Sources used: Copyright catalog, motion pictures, 1894-1912; Niver, K.R. Early motion pictures, 1985; AFI cat.: film beginnings, 1893-1910, 1995; Biograph bulletins 1896-1908, 1971, p. 102; Biograph photo catalog, v. 5 [MI].
Filmed July 20, 1903 in the Biograph New York City studio.
Available on the Internet; Library of Congress World Wide Web site (http://lcweb.loc.gov)
Bag punching
United States
Physical education and training
United States
Silent films
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