Sportshots No 2 - Jack Doyle (1932)

Note: Location of the events unknown. Full titles read: “’Sportshots No 2, Celebrated ’Stars’ under the cine- camera lens, JACK DOYLE.“ Intertitle reads: “Introduced by Charles Eade, Sports Editor, Sunday Express.“ L/S of Charles Eade with an elderly gentleman named Dan Sullivan who Eade claims is the “discoverer of Britain’s latest heavyweight hope.“ L/S of the boxer Doyle walking into view. Good C/U of Jack Doyle. L/S’s and M/S’s of Doyle demonstrating his boxing skills on a punch bag, as well as shadow boxing and skipping. Eade say “it is interesting to compare young Jack with our old champion Jack Bloomfield.“ Bloomfield enters and claims that Doyle is one of the best fighters he has seen in a number of years. C/U of Doyle, he raises his fist to the camera lens. A voice is heard saying “Blimey, he’s knocked out the camera lens.“ FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVI
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