The Thomas Edison Company: Women boxing

[3iGtBall]

*dude with a mexican accent goes: sock that bitch!!

[chadberry75]

THATS GREAT GRANDMA.

[rodz0r]

Keep your hands UP!

[squeekycat]

So, who won?

[karrrido]

no ripping out eachothers extensions & fingernails?

[ricarleite]

I mean, who needs defense? Just punch her face to a pulp as fast as you can!

[Zhaquiri]

Watch 1:18 over and over and over again...you'll die laughing.

[AndresHerrera15]

EPIC !

You gotta love the dress their wearing.

[LynnPopsVideos]

This is truly Amazing!!! 

[utgfilms]

wheres the mud?

[LesHart51]

As is the 'norm', they box 'like girls'! However, each of them gets a good -punch every once in a while... I used to bartend, and i saw plenty of cat-fights over the years (Especially in a Biker Bar where I worked.) Anyway, unlike professional women boxers, these ladies look like girls fighting! (Oh! Did I already say that? Oh, well... all-in-all, they looked like girls boxing! LMAO!!!!

[TerryLightfoot]

wow...ANKLES!!!!

[xanafanadu]

@TerryLightfoot this is a sport.... they're excused!

[abayomi8]

stop right now and kiss each other

[HotKebab]

Boy, am I glad that womens boxing has evolved considerably since 1901.

[newfful]

Oh my, ladies don't do that sort of thing.

Shame on them and without their petticoats!

[champagnevoluptuous]

Well, now I'm inspired!

[nu407]

Damn, that's my granma....

[dapet123456]

Amazing footage!

[MorroccoSurrogate]

They really aren't in full period dress. Bare legs and arms like this is pretty scintillating, only seen with bathing suits. It looks like that's what they're wearing here. Of course, in this case they're dressed for practicality based on what they're doing, not to scintillate. I'm guessing these are vaudeville entertainers, like a lot of Edison's recordings, doing one of their acts meant to amuse.

[zeekee8]

XDXDXDXDXDXD

[jesuslover12341234]

my greatgrandmother mama died in that year my great grand mother was only 10 wow i cant belive shes still living :O

[prmass1]

I think on this one the joke is on me. I can't stop laughing. This is a classic.

[eyotan]

i'd fight them in the bed

[fallenleaf25]

Funny seeing two women dressed so primly beating each other up =)

[BSNFabricating]

I like that spin at 0:48! =)

[heartsineurope]

nice footwork from the female in the black dress

[cybersonic35]

So it looks like women doing sports has alwyas been a joke...

[ekocentric]

They obviously did not know how to "bitch slap" anyone. lol

[guimbadriver]

haha the first video tape of the history ...

[thebrujaisback]

i think thats really neat! not very good boxing of course but its just historic and yes very fun. thanks for posting!

[alldoog]

Women's boxing still sucks!

[naomi186]

they looks like men dressed up like women to me :S

[vanness5]

Thank heavens they are not dressed in blue jeans! That my friends would be too shocking!

[iiswansongii]

The girl in the black dress was kind of cheating :/ She kept hitting the other in the chest. DISQUALIFIED! :P

[bigdee77]

dont be trying to git with my man, bitch!! haha

[triky808]

and people complain about the boxing cats.....In my opinion I see nothing wrong with either the lady or cats boxing. they are both humorous clips.

[princezaphod]

So hot!

[thevidiotkid]

Note re: Brightness of studio. Early Edison films and most all others into the 'teens were filmed utilizing daylight.

Serious electric lighting of sets coincided with later advances in film stocks.

As far as Edison being the spiritual grandfather of the FOX Network, based on this film, I'd agree...............

[LookAtMeIAmStoopid]

man, even these chicks' bones must be dust by now...

[mexdodge]

i disagree with Joshua (the poster), this is of GREAT interest. Thanks for posting. I find them fascinating

[ioshitkm1988]

eso comprueba que el boxeo femenino aparecio junto con el masculino a fines de 1890

[aquaman300]

gun to head, i'd take the one in black

[xatanos]

asu mare  asi peleaban las bisaguelas..

[slowthisdown44]

They have this one in HD?

[gardenwife]

Chick fight! Who knew old Tom was into that. ;) Seriously, though, it's great seeing this. The clarity is great for its time. I wonder just how bright that studio had to be for it to be so well-exposed. The short dresses were, I bet, scandalous. LOL

[coolcat6651]

That's an incredibly clear image for a moving picture from 1901!

[saxophoney]

"Film anything that moves" must have been the credo at the time and even this must have been stunning to the viewer.

[brightshadows13]

The point wasn't to make something entertaining; it was for purely scientific purposes. The first e-mail ever sent read "Is this working?" not some incredibly witty Shakespeare.

[atlantasbest]

check out that footwork!!

[supie101]

I swear .....  women will do anything to get in the movies.......

[mizalaina]

Takedown! Go for the takedown!

[HartfordTommy]

Edison finished in the film-making business in 1914. A nitrate fire started in the film labs, then burned down most of his Orange, NJ research and production facilities. Hollywood took off in partial result.

I have one of his Home Kinetoscopes. The later films....

[HartfordTommy]

are short stories, or often socially instructive: "The Care and Feeding of Babies". "Building the Panema Canal in 1911" is fascinating to watch from the original (Home Kinetoscope) print, nearly a century later. "The Canal is scheduled to open in 1914."

[HartfordTommy]

But, yes, the earliest films of Edison, and of even the Lumiere Brothers in France, were odd scenes of this-or-that. The concept of storytelling via motion pictures took some time to develop. At the first, the mere presentation of living pictures was enough to ensure commercial success. Evolution is seen in all branches of the arts and sciences. Thanks for the video!

[ManilaSyndicate]

( lol ) Amusing vid. The one in black seemed to have packed quite a wallop! It's funny to see the way the women would spin as if they were on the dance floor.

[hibernatus]

"Love Is A Battlefield?"

[woodrailking]

Thank you for not putting "Hit Me With Your Best Shot" by Pat Benatar as the soundtrack!