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 (.). 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: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931