THE BURNS-JOHNSON PICTURES.
The fact that the Burns-Johnsou pictures are announced to be exhibited here is causing quite a stir. The match was for the heavy - weight championship of the world. Burns received ,£6OOO, Johnson ,£1,500. Twenty thousand people paid ,£26,000 to see the contest, while 50,000 vainly clamoured for admission outside the stadium. Visitors from America, England, New Zealand and every Australian State were present. The price for admission ranged from ros to ,£5. The contest was stopped by a police inspector in the fourteenth round, and the title of ‘heavyweight champion of the world’ went to Jack Johnson. Four biograph cameras were at work, and not a single incident was missed by the operators, who, having an ideal day for their work, succeeded in turning out, what has on all sides been admitted to be the finest specimen of animated photography yet screened in Australasia, Messrs John Fuller and Sons arranged with Mr Hugh D. Mclntosh, the promoter of the contest for the sole rights for exhibiting the pictures in the Dominion, and they will be shown here to-morrow evening, at the Public Hall.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 454, 29 April 1909, Page 2
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186THE BURNS-JOHNSON PICTURES. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXI, Issue 454, 29 April 1909, Page 2
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