Boxing Fever (1909)

Unused, unissued material Full title reads: Boxing Fever. London. This is a Lion s Head Brand film. Fairground boxing booth where visitors try to knock out the champion and win five pounds, the first contestants is knocked out but the very eager (and possibly drunk) third man knocks out the champion and overcome with boxing fever rushes out punching at everybody and everything he meets. He is chased through the streets by an irate crowd and eventually goes into a pub where. .. Intertitle reads: Three Hours Later. he gets (even more) drunk and goes home where his wife knocks him about until he pleads for mercy. FILM A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136, 000 items from the news agencie