- Title: VM-1431
- Summary: TUNNEY-DEMPSEY FIGHT: HEAVYWEIGHT BOXING CONTEST BETWEEN GENE TUNNEY (HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF THE WORLD & JACK DEMPSEY (CONTENDER). AT SOLDIERS FIELD, CHICAGO, ILLINOIS. THIS FILM INCLUDES EACH ROUND OF THE ENTIRE FIGHT, WITH HIGHLIGHTS OF EACH KNOCKDOWN RE-PLAYED IN SLOW MOTION. FILM ALSO INCLUDES THE FAMOUS "LONG COUNT", WHICH PROVED TO BE THE DECIDING FACTOR IN THE FIGHT FAVORING GENE TUNNEY. 9/22/27
- Description:00:02:02 - TEX RICKARD, THE GREATEST PROMOTER AND SHOWMAN IN THE WORLD. RICKARD, WEARS WHITE FEDORA AS HE SITS IN CHAIR, FACING CAMERA, SMOKING CIGAR. 00:02:21 - MISS NAOMI LOWENSOHN, RICKARD'S PRIVATE SECRETARY, ALSO MANAGES THE SALE OF TICKETS AND OTHER IMPORTANT DUTIES, SITS IN CHAIR, POSES. 00:02:32 - GEORGE F. GETZ, PROMOTER FOR THE GREAT EVENT, POSES AT SOLDIERS FIELD, THE LARGEST ARENA IN THE WORLD WITH SEATING CAPACITY OF 150,000. REPORTERS-PEOPLE MILL AROUND IN BKGD. 00:02:58 - PANORAMIC VIEW OF HUGE EMPTY SOLDIER'S FIELD STADIUM. 00:03:13 - NEWSPAPER REPORTERS SEATED ON BENCHES, PRESS PASSES IN HAT BANDS, POSE. EVERY NEWSPAPER IN THE COUNTRY IS REPRESENTED. 00:03:28 - PAN LARGE CADRE OF POLICEMEN SIT ON BENCHES AWAITING ASSIGNMENT FOR KEEPING ORDER FOR THE GREAT ASSEMBLAGE EMPTY STANDS IN BKGD. 00:03:51 - BILL STILLMAN OF NEW YORK, "WORLDS CHAMPION USHER" WHO HAS HANDLED MILLIONS OF FIGHT FANS FOR RICKARD WITH HIS ARMY OF USHERS, POSES AT FIELD, WITH BLUEPRINTS IN HAND. WEARING "OFFICIAL" ARM BAND, INSTRUCTS HIS USHERS SEATED ON BENCHES BEFORE HIM 00:04:09 - RING IS ESPECIALLY ILLUMINATED WITH EXTRA 40,000 CANDLE POWER LAMPS HANGING OVERHEAD. HUGE CLOCK AND SCOREBOARD IN DISTANT BKGD 00:04:35 - SLOW TILT UP STEEL BEAMS HOLDING UP OFFICIAL STAND WHICH SEVERAL CAMERAMEN (FACING CAMERA, STAND BEHIND THEIR MOTION PICTURE CAMERAS TO PHOTOGRAPH GREAT EVENT. 00:05:02 - EVENT BEGINS. DIGNITARIES, INCLUDING GEORGE GETZ, TEX RICKARD, MAYOR THOMPSON, GOVERNOR SMALL, STATES ATTORNEY CROWE, JIM JEFFRIES ARE INTRODUCED, SHAKE WITH EACH OTHER. 00:06:03 - JACK DEMPSEY ENTERS RING TO GREAT OVATION, SHAKES HANDS WITH DIGNITARIES. 00:06:15 - GENE TUNNEY ENTERS RING TO HEARTY WELCOME FROM MULTITUDE OF ADMIRERS. DEMPSEY IMMEDIATELY WALKS OVER TO SHAKE GENE'S HAND. 00:06:56 - WITH CROWD WILDLY CHEERING, ANNOUNCER INTRODUCES FIGHTERS WHO ARE SURROUNDED AT THEIR CORNERS BY HANDLERS. NO MICROPHONE. 150,000 SCREAMING FANS. REFEREE GIVES BOXERS, HANDLERS FINAL INSTRUCTION IN CENTER OF RING. 00:07:34 - "ROUND ONE": DEMPSEY RUSHES OUT THROWS A LEFT HOOK, TUNNEY TIES HIM UP, REFEREE HAS TO SEPARATE THEM. TUNNEY THROWS PUNCHES, TIES DEMPSEY UP, DANCES AROUND RING AS DEMPSEY STALKS HIM. TUNNEY PRETTY MUCH DOES THIS THROUGHOUT FIGHT. NEVER GIVES DEMPSEY STANDING TARGET OR CHANCE TO THROW PUNCHES. OUTBOXES HIM. 00:09:50 - MONTAGE ROUND TWO TO ROUND SEVEN, DEMPSEY RELENTLESSLY PURSUES TUNNEY WHO OUT BOXES HIM. TUNNEY THROWS PUNCH, THEN TIES UP DEMPSEY IN CLINCHES. 00:23:36 - "ROUND SEVEN": DEMPSEY HITS TUNNEY WITH LEFT HOOK, GENE GOES DOWN FOR COUNT OF NINE WHICH REFEREE DOESN'T START UNTIL DEMPSEY GOES TO "FARTHEST CORNER", PER THE RULES. DEMPSEY WAITS LONG TIME BEFORE HE GOES TO FURTHEST CORNER, GIVING TUNNEY AMPLE TIME TO RE-COUP. THIS WAS THE FAMED "LONG COUNT" WHICH SHOULD HAVE GIVEN DEMPSEY FIGHT BY KNOCKOUT. TUNNEY GETS TO HIS FEET MANAGES TO DEFEND AGAINST A RELENTLESS DEMPSEY. 00:26:27 - TUNNEY KNOCKDOWN SHOWN IN SLOW MOTION. 00:27:57 - A LUNGING LEFT HOOK STAGGERS TUNNEY AGAINST ROPES, FOLLOWED BY RIGHT TO JAW, SMASHING LEFT HOOK TO JAW, RIGHTS AND LEFTS UNTIL TUNNEY HITS THE CANVAS. TUNNEY CLEARLY SHOWS HE IS STILL HURT AFTER REFEREE STARTS HIS LATE COUNT. 00:28:46 - "ROUND EIGHT": TUNNEY KNOCKS DOWN DEMPSEY WITH RIGHT TO HEAD. JACK WAS DOWN FOR COUNT OF ONE. SEEN IN SLOW MOTION. 00:31:44 - "ROUND NINE & TEN": JACK'S EYE IS BLEEDING AS TUNNEY SENSES VICTORY, TEARS IN. PUNCHES, TIES HIM UP FOR REST OF FIGHT. 00:37:37 - REFEREE HOLDS UP TUNNEY'S HAND IS DECLARED UNDEFEATED HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION OF WORLD. LS GENE TALKS OVER LARGE HAND HELD, VINTAGE RADIO MICROPHONE, CROWD OF HANDLERS, RING ANNOUNCER, MANAGER, OTHERS AROUND HIM. 00:37:56 - BILLY GIBSON, TUNNEY'S MANAGER, POSES FOR CAMERA. 00:38:05 - CU JACK DEMPSEY, FACE SHOT, TRIED HIS BEST TO REGAIN HIS LOST TITLE. }M
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1927
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1920s
- File Name: VM-1431