Young Griffo vs. Battling Charles Barnett
AKA [Young Griffo — Battling Barnett]
(1895) American
B&W : Short film
Directed by Otway Latham

Cast: Young Griffo (Albert Griffiths), Charles Barnett

Lambda Company production; distributed by [?] Lambda Company? / Cinematography by W.K.L. Dickson. / Premiere 20 May 1895 at 153 Broadway in New York, New York. / Eidoloscope spherical widegauge filmstock format. / The production was shot 4 May 1895 on the roof of the Madison Square Garden in New York, New York, on widegauge filmstock manufactured by Eastman Company. Ramsaye-Million p. 136 maintains that this film was the first to be projected onto a screen for commercial gain.

Documentary: Sports: Boxing match.

Survival Status: The film is presumed lost.

Keywords: Athletes: Boxers - Sports: Boxing - USA: New York: New York - Wide-format film

Listing updated: 3 March 2008.

References: Blum-Silent p. 7; Musser-Emerge pp. 94, 98; Ramsaye-Million pp. 134, 136, 180-181, 185, 210; Robertson-Guinness pp. 3, 5; Robinson-Palace pp. 54, 55 : FilmHistory-3-3 p. 252.