Review of Leonard-Cushing Fight

Boxing movies were quite common as choices to be put on film during the very early years of cinema. Dickson made a couple of these himself, but this is one of the least convincing. Even his portrayals of show-boxing were more interesting. Not only is the physical quality of the "Leonard-Cushing Fight" not good at all (the heads can't be seen at all), the action is also either too one-sided or just not entertaining at all. The most interesting thing about it may have been the totally different kinds of pants the athletes were wearing back then. The film runs for roughly 40 seconds, longer than most other Dickson films around that time, but it's simply not one of his better works. Not at all.