Historians: I Want Your Film!!!

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I have an announcement to make. :)


A little while ago, I began a project with a few friends to design an online boxing library. The goal is to make early film and other media (no longer copywrighted) available to the general public. Well, the web page is finished and all we need now are the films to stock it with. (we'll be winzipping them, and we've found a way to get as much space as we need.)

Right now, we have a fairly small range: just the heavyweight champions from Sullivan to Johnson. As time goes on, we'll be expanding it more and more until we have a very large listing of films, newspapers, books, photographs, and other resources.....and all of it available to the general public! This would be a HUGE asset to early boxing researchers, and would eliminate the old days were fights would have to be traded piecemeal.

The whole boxing community would have this information at their disposal. No longer would you see people complaining that the old-timers had no idea what they were doing.....just direct them to the library and tell them which sparring footage they should watch.

That's where you come in, gentlemen. Every library needs to start somewhere, so I'm coming to you, begging cup in hand, asking for film. Whatever you are willing to donate would be greatly appreciated.

Just send them to unable_to_find_unused_name@yahoo.com



And without further ado......




The Website:

http://www.freewebs.com/boxingfilm/

Very sweet looking site with good intentions.

Welcome to the forum...hope someone here can help you.

Have the Obligatory Wacko Welcome Wagon :coolclick:

...I'll be bookmarking this site for future knowledge.

Nice.

Well done Cross_Trainer excellent stuff.

Take a look here http://www.lmu.livjm.ac.uk/inmylife/...Sport/1116.htm

The editor of the site is very helpfull and has lots of material if you want to give him an email, Im in the process of doing something similar but not film and he was glad to help out with content and other bits and pieces.

Again well done and good luck with it, will be sure to bookmark it ;)

theres some good stuff to search on www.youtube.com , thats what i can recommend .

i checked on your site and there is some footage and info on them on a dvd which is the sun's top ten boxing. (as in the sun newpaper)
it has a few like so thats the best i could recommend, it has fitzsimmons and johnson on it defo.

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Originally Posted by body head banger

theres some good stuff to search on www.youtube.com , thats what i can recommend .

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Not to sure that you can download off of youtube though...can you?

Again...not sure.

http://www.iabpff.org/regions/site/sam1.html

Bottom of the page, a Sam Langford zip file, cant vouch for it as I havent watched it yet.

Thanks for the links, Memphis.

And everybody else for the compliments!