Footage Of Harry Greb!

[Willie Pep 229]

Private libraries. The tradition of public libraries may not have certain types of texts but can get people heading in the correct direction. My public library branch on 96st was a small branch of the New York City Public Library system, but to me as a kid it seemed immense, endless... I am afraid to look at it as an adult it would burst my bubble.

Yea but the entire archive of the NYC system is avaiable by request (and wait) from any branch? No? I'm not 100% sure but I believe it is that way.

Now my home town in the Jersey suburbs was small town and had no archives it could share with. Other than looking up old local newspapers it had no real worth.

The old newspapers were stored in paper. I use to be able to touch, feel, read the old papers. I liked it, but it was no way to preserve the past.

They had no microfiche. (Remember trying to read newspapers on that medium? Made your eyes feel old fast.) Lol

[billeau2]

Yea but the entire archive of the NYC system is avaiable by request (and wait) from any branch? No? I'm not 100% sure but I believe it is that way.

Now my home town in the Jersey suburbs was small town and had no archives it could share with. Other than looking up old local newspapers it had no real worth.

The old newspapers were stored in paper. I use to be able to touch, feel, read the old papers. I liked it, but it was no way to preserve the past.

They had no microfiche. (Remember trying to read newspapers on that medium? Made your eyes feel old fast.) Lol

There have always been ways to access materials. The better the technology has gotten, the easier to do so.

[Keleneki]

A poster he who prefixes his UN with Dr once claimed on the Classic Forum that he had a friend who had seen real actual fight footage of Greb.Steve Compton publicly called him a liar,and when" Dr "responded with you dont know what's out there or what I've seen said.Just give me the serial id number of the film.Compton has a vast film collection and is the author of a biography on Greb.The Dr made no more claims about surviving fight footage of Greb.
Several posters here can verify this.

I used to have a copy of that book Steve Compton wrote about Harry Greb. It was filled with pictures that I used to stare at, imaging them moving.

[QueensburyRules]

I used to have a copy of that book Steve Compton wrote about Harry Greb. It was filled with pictures that I used to stare at, imaging them moving.

- - Greb gonna reach out and slap ya one day, so take care.

[Ivich]

I used to have a copy of that book Steve Compton wrote about Harry Greb. It was filled with pictures that I used to stare at, imaging them moving.

Did you enjoy the book? I read it was well researched,but not a particularly entertaining read?

[billeau2]

Did you enjoy the book? I read it was well researched,but not a particularly entertaining read?

I still say: When they find that ole lady in Pittsburgh, who had a momma that had a crush on that "Harry the boxer guy" and stashed a bunch of fights she filmed, as a real tech savy forward lady of the ages... it will put all previous efforts at researching Harry G to shame!

[QueensburyRules]

I still say: When they find that ole lady in Pittsburgh, who had a momma that had a crush on that "Harry the boxer guy" and stashed a bunch of fights she filmed, as a real tech savy forward lady of the ages... it will put all previous efforts at researching Harry G to shame!

- - All time ca 1914 footage of Sam fighting Joe in Paris for JJ title the French stripped him of after his fiasco vs Battling Johnson only appeared a few years ago.

Amazingly quite watchable too. I'm humbled to have watched it.

[billeau2]

- - All time ca 1914 footage of Sam fighting Joe in Paris for JJ title the French stripped him of after his fiasco vs Battling Johnson only appeared a few years ago.

Amazingly quite watchable too. I'm humbled to have watched it.

These things do happen lol. One never knows and we can hope...

[Willie Pep 229]

These things do happen lol. One never knows and we can hope...

A better chance is that it is lost in an extensive collection somewhere, (person or institution.)

Miss labeled or spliced onto the back end of another fight, in a property, but incompletely labeled film can.

They say today more archeological (new) discoveries are made via re-evaluations of exisiting artifacts found in museum archives, than come from new digs.

I think the 'film in the attic' dream becomes more and more a pipe dream as the decades pass by; not that being 'lost-in-plain-sight' is such a good thing either, but right now maybe that's where the search needs to go.

[Keleneki]

Did you enjoy the book? I read it was well researched,but not a particularly entertaining read?

I didn't care for the writing style very much. I did enjoy all the pictures it was filled with.