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''The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight'' is an 1897 documentary film directed by Enoch J. Rector depicting a boxing match between James J. Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons in Carson City, Nevada on St. Patrick's Day the same year. Originally running at over 100 minutes, it was the longest film that had ever been released to date; as such, it was the world's first feature film. The technology that allowed this is known as the Latham loop, and Rector was a rival for claiming the invention of the device. He used three such equipped cameras placed adjacently and filming on 63mm nitrate film. Only fragments of the film survive today. The known fragments were transferred in the 1980s from a print owned by Jean A. LeRoy of New York City, the transfer done on a specially built optical printer to convert the film to 35mm film. The film was also the first ever to be shot in widescreen, with an aspect ratio of about 1.65:1. According to Dan Streible, ''The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight'' is "one of the earliest individual productions to sustain public commentary on the cinema."〔Dan Streible. "Female Spectators and the Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight Film" in Aaron Baker and Todd Edward Boyd, ''Out of Bounds: Sports, Media, and the Politics of Identity'' (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1997) pp. 16-47, 16.〕 The film is so important to film history that Luke McKernan declared, "it was boxing that created the cinema."〔Luke McKernan. "Sport and the First Films." in Christopher Williams (ed.) ''Cinema: The Beginnings and the Future'' (London: University of Westminster Press, 1996) p. 107〕 In 2012, the film was added to the National Film Registry at the Library of Congress as a "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant film".〔King, Susan. ("National Film Registry selects 25 films for preservation " ) ''Los Angeles Times'' (December 19, 2012)〕 ==Synopsis== The film no longer exists in its entirety; however, it is known from contemporary sources that the film included all fourteen rounds of the event, each round lasting three minutes. This was not unusual for a boxing film, although each round would previously have been presented as a separate attraction. What made this film exceptional is a five-minute introduction that showed former champion John L. Sullivan (whom Corbett defeated in 1892) and his manager, Billy Madden, introducing the event, the introduction of referee George Siler, and both boxers entering the ring in their robes.〔Streible, 22.〕 The film also caught the one-minute rest between each round and, when the film was reissued in Boston and many of its subsequent reissues, including in Dublin, included a ten-minute epilogue of the empty ring at the end of the fight, into which members of the audience eventually stormed. Even with these approximate timings, the film ran a minimum of 71 minutes, and sources generally report that it exceeded 90 or 100 minutes. The film climaxes with Fitzsimmons hitting Corbett in the solar plexus for a knockout, Corbett crawling outside the space of the camera so that he is not visible above the waist.〔Streible, 22〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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