First Commercial Film Myth
Today in school I learned that this is widely believed to be the first commercial celluloid projection for an audience. I learned that it has been dissproven and that this film actually got it before the Lumiere bros did... "A public showing of a four-minute film takes place in a storefront at 153 Broadway, New York on May 20 of this year (1895). It was a boxing match which had been filmed by Woodville Latham and his sons Otway and Grey. The staged fight had been filmed on the roof of Madison Square Garden. The boxers were known as 'Young Griffo' and 'Battling Barnett'. When asked by son Otway Latham whether a scene could be projected on a screen like in the Kinetoscope parlours, father Woodville answered, "You can project anything on a screen that you can see with the naked eye and which can be photographed."" - http://www.acmi.net.au/AIC/LATHAM_BIO.html
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