MONEY IN FIGHT FILMS
' Tommy Farr's gallant effort to. bring the world's heavyweight championship to Britain attracted big crowds to see the fight film, says . the "Manchester Guardian." It was on the last occasion that the championship was won by a Briton that the first pictures of a big fight were taken. That was so long ago as 1897, when Bob Fitzsimmbns beat James" Cofbett at Carson City. There was bjg money in such films even in those days, for it is recorded that from one State alone over £20,000 was received, whilst Corbett would have made nothing from the fight but for his share of the film receipts. The film of the Schmeling-Louis fight last year was another wonderful moneymaker, mainly owing to the fact that it was decreed that it should be exhibited at schools and in towns and villages all over Germany. In that country it was described as of political and educational value, because it showed "a German victory over the coloured race."
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 108, 3 November 1937, Page 5
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