Fight Film “Shot” Across U.S.A. Border
About the most ingenious case on record of legal smuggling of films is revealed by Harry Fischbeck, a prominent Hollywood cameraman. In 1916 promoters wanted to bring a copy of the Willard-Johnson fight picture across the border from Canada, but were thwarted by the | law against importing pictures of this ! nature into America. Fischbeck evolved a way of doing it without breaking the law, which explicitly forbids the “transportation” of the films across the border. He set up a tent exactly on the international boundary line a mile or two west of Rouse’s Point, New York State. Then he arranged a camera on the American side and an apparatus for holding the fight film on the Canadian side, and proceeded to photograph the film, frame by frame, across the boundary line. Representatives of the American and Canadian Customs Departments i were present throughout Fischbeck's operations, at his invitation, but were unable to stop him, as nothing except light rays was being smuggled acros* 1 the hordes.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 631, 6 April 1929, Page 25
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172Fight Film “Shot” Across U.S.A. Border Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 631, 6 April 1929, Page 25
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