are the old gillette fights available on film from the msg

[CNorkusJr]

Sorry to burst the bubble... I watched video.... Ralph finds Rosenbloom vs. Levinsky fight listed in paper and puts TV on. All you get is the crowd noise which was probably a "canned" arena crowd mumble (no actual words were said.) Norton does listen to the Captain Video soundtrack though, but I dont even know if that is real.

[Brutu]

The Rosenbloom vrs King Levinsky fight took place at the Olympic Auditorium in Los Angeles California ,so there is a good chance it was filmed.Like Joe Louis vrs Lee Ramage II,
(Wrigley Field)which someone here had mentioned in another thread didnt turn up until the late 1960's.

Captain Video(1949-1955) and the Honeymooners (the real early skits anyway on the Cavalcade of Stars show)ran on the same television netwok(DuMont)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Vi ... eo_Rangers


The Honeymooners episodes after 1952 were filmed at DuMont studios but aired for CBS.

[Brutu]

Sorry to burst the bubble... I watched video.... Ralph finds Rosenbloom vs. Levinsky fight listed in paper and puts TV on. All you get is the crowd noise which was probably a "canned" arena crowd mumble (no actual words were said.) Norton does listen to the Captain Video soundtrack though, but I dont even know if that is real.

Oh well,It was a lead that needed to be followed up on anyway to figure out.
BTW Did you see the 1951 Columbia Short subject THE CHAMPS STEP OUT,
in the Maxie Rosenbloom thread?
He shadow boxes a little in it,but I think he is exaggerating a style
for the character.

[CNorkusJr]

Sorry to burst the bubble... I watched video.... Ralph finds Rosenbloom vs. Levinsky fight listed in paper and puts TV on. All you get is the crowd noise which was probably a "canned" arena crowd mumble (no actual words were said.) Norton does listen to the Captain Video soundtrack though, but I dont even know if that is real.

Oh well,It was a lead that needed to be followed up on anyway to figure out.
BTW Did you see the 1951 Columbia Short subject THE CHAMPS STEP OUT,
in the Maxie Rosenbloom thread?
He shadow boxes a little in it,but I think he is exaggerating a style
for the character.

I didnt see that particular short, but I do remember seeing others "shadow" for a camera. It was awhile ago. It might have been Dempsey.

[Brutu]

The 16 minute Columbia short film THE CHAMPS STEP OUT(1951),
was one of five that Rosenbloom did together with Max Baer.
There is a link to it on youtube in the Are there any fight films of Maxie Rosenbloom? thread.
I will bump it up.

[Brutu]

There was a lot of live boxing on TV in the early days of television because it was so inexpensive to produce.Here is a listing of the network boxing shows of the late 1940's and 1950's.


1946- The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports-NBC(Mondays and Fridays)
(Thursday Night "Fight film Filler")

1948-
BOXING FROM ST. NICHOLAS ARENA(NBC)
BOXING FROM WESTCHESTER(CBS)
BOXING FROM JAMAICA ARENA(DUMONT)

1949-
TOMORROW'S BOXING CHAMPIONS(ABC)
BOXING FROM SUNNYSIDE GARDENS(DUMONT)
BOXING FROM DEXTER ARENA(DUMONT)
BOXING FROM MADISON SQUARE GARDEN(DUMONT)

SOURCE-The Complete Directory to Primetime TV Shows 1946-Present(1979)
by Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh

http://www.skypoint.com/members/schutz19/boxing.htm

[Brutu]

http://www.loc.gov/film/pdfs/tvadams.pdf

[Caractacus]

Sorry to burst the bubble... I watched video.... Ralph finds Rosenbloom vs. Levinsky fight listed in paper and puts TV on. All you get is the crowd noise which was probably a "canned" arena crowd mumble (no actual words were said.) Norton does listen to the Captain Video soundtrack though, but I dont even know if that is real.

Here it is for you again Boxbuzz.
But to further confuse things, since the older link in this thread to that particular episodeof THE HONEYMOONERS has since been removed ,
I have decided to post the newer link to it in the "Bensonhurst Bomber" Jackie Gleason thread where you all can watch it again and see/hear it for yourselves.

[Caractacus]

wonder if any have turned up since this thread was started.
I read a number of them are in the archives of the Paley Center.