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FIRST PROGRAMME IN LONDON TRANSMISSION OF BOXING TITLE BOUT. FROM DISTANCE OF TEN MILES. By Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright. LONDON, February 24. A televised programme was seen for the first time last night on a large cinema screen, when a Marble Arch Theatre audience viewed the Boon-Dan-ahar fight for the lightweight championship of Britain, held at Harringay, 10 miles distant. The picture compared favourably with the newsreel of the fight. The referee stopped the fight in Boon’s favour in the fourteenth round.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 February 1939, Page 5
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83CINEMA TELEVISION Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 February 1939, Page 5
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