Boxing's Biggest Failure (1923)

Item title reads - BOXING'S BIGGEST FAILURE. Dempsey - Gibbons fight fiasco, bankrupts two banks and town of Shelby, Montana, who guaranteed £60,000 purse. USA (U.S.A.). L/S of lots of people packed onto a platform by a train. M/S of large tents in a field behind signs saying '1000 beds' and 'Tent City.' Intertitle - 'the gate was 6000 instead of the anticipated 60,000.' M/S of the stadium from the air showing many empty seats. M/S of the people in it, various L/S of Dempsey and Gibbons in the boxing ring and people in the stadium. FILM ID:312.12 A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT'S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. http://www.britishpathe.tv/ FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT http://www.britishpathe.com/

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