Robinson-Turpin 1

Source catalog description

This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

This film was a part of the Washington D.C. Public Library's circulating 16mm film collection housed at the Martin Luther King Jr. Central Library. The collection is particularly noted for the wide variety of African American and African diaspora content. A motion picture film of the first fight between Sugar Ray Robinson and Randy Turpin. It consists of a single reel of black-and-white acetate film with optical sound.

Catalog date

September 12, 1951

Recorded places

Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America; London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Europe

Recorded subjects

African American; Athletes; Boxing; Film

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