The Man to Beat Jack Johnson

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The Man to Beat Jack Johnson
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Screenshot from the film
Produced byWalter Tyler
StarringWilly Sanders
Production
company
Tyler Film Company
Release date
  • 1910 (1910)
Running time
3 mins 7 secs
CountryUnited Kingdom
Language Silent

The Man to Beat Jack Johnson is a 1910 British short black-and-white silent comedy film, produced by the Tyler Film Company, featuring four-year-old Willy Sanders demonstrating his boxing and wrestling skills against an adult opponent.[ citation needed ]

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Description

The film "has the feel of a filmed music hall act (which it may have been)" thanks, according to Michael Brooke of BFI Screenonline, to a, "simple idea (and a slightly disturbing one)", which is, "primitive in its execution". A clip from this film is featured in Paul Merton's interactive guide to early British silent comedy How They Laughed. [1] [2] [3]

References

  1. ↑ Brooke, Michael. "The Man to Beat Jack Johnson". BFI Screenonline. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
  2. ↑ "The Man to Beat Jack Johnson". BFI Film & TV Database. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
  3. ↑ Merton, Paul. "How They Laughed". BFI Screenonline. Retrieved 24 April 2011.


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