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Title Work

Title No: 21425

Title: BC.154c

Medium: Moving Image

Original Medium: Film

Date: 30 Aug  1937 (Release)

Original Summary:
Stock footage gathered for Black Champions.

"Boxing
Head: ""Joe Louis XE0000 Head""
XE0085 – XE1031
*Footage includes Joe Louis training outside.
*""Louis and Farr Hold Postmortem on the Big Fight"" 
Tommy Farr vs Joe Louis, August 30, 1937
(Triangle square triangle) = 1984 ; B&W on color stock ; 85 feet"	

"Boxing
Head: ""XT Louis & Schmeling""
XT0003 – XT
""Joe Louis vs. Max Schmeling; New York, New York; June 19, 1936""
Copyright: 1964 Schmeling, Inc.
AG1S (Agfa) ; B&W with VA sound ; 150 feet"	

"Baseball and Track & Field
Head: ""Negro Baseball Paige"" - on tape, tape replaced
Baseball briefly very beginning, then goes back to Track & Field Newsreel ""New Marks Set by College Stars at Penn Relays""
HB0002 – HB0215
No code ; B&W ; 80 feet"	

"Head: ""QA0000 Head Depression Footage"" - on tape; tape replaced
QA0000 – QA0465
*Universal Newspaper Newsreel
Unemployed Storm City Bureau As 500 Battle For 100 Jobs""
Footage includes poor families, 
*Ford Educational Library intertitle and corresponding footage: ""The aged ""Mammy"" still remembers the slave market of Lincoln's time."" ; ""Compressing cotton bales for shipping."" ; ""Loading cotton for foreign mills."" ; ""In New Orleans the first sugar was refined in 1794. Cutting the cane."" ; ""The scattered negro dwellings must be close together to allow larger field space and fewer places for the Boll Weevil to hide."" ; and footage of a train.
No code ; B&W ; 175 feet"

Trims in can.

Countries of Origin: U.S.A.

Duration: 11 min 

Forms: Stock shot

Genres: Sports

Subjects: Boxing; Sports--United States; Baseball; Negro leagues

Name As Subjects: Louis, Joe; Schmeling, Max; Paige, Satchel; Farr, Tommy

Credits:
RoleName
Production CompanyTurn of the Century Fights
Source of MaterialUnited States. National Archives and Records Administration
Production CompanyUniversal Pictures Company.

Items x4

ItemDescription
21425-1Safety Film : Positive picture 
21425-2Safety Film : Positive picture 
21425-3Safety Film : Positive picture 
21425-4Safety Film : Positive picture 


Contained By x1

Title NoTitle
4603Black champions [stock footage]