. Boxing (1955)

Cafe Royal, London. GV. Featherweight boxing contest between Teddy Peckham from Bournemouth and Jimmy Black from Trinidad. This is a traditional evening dress meeting of National Sporting Club (.). SV. Showing audience in evening dress drinking and smoking cigars. CU. Charles Sweeny and Christopher Soames, Sir Winston Churchill’s son-in-law. CU. Marquis of Milford-Haven (David Michael Mountbatten). CU. Baines, cameraman in evening dress smoking a large Havana. SV. Peckham swings a right to Black’s jaw - they size one and other up and Black leads with a few left jabs. Peckham ducks to avoid a vicious left from Black. They size up. SV. Black leads with a left, followed by a left and works Peckham into the centre of the ring where they both exchange blows and go into a clinch. CU. Boxer in clinch, Peckham forces Black away on the cut. SV. Peckham gives a left and a right but Black ducks and comes in with a left to the body. CU. People watching. SV. Bell goes just as Peckham takes a left hook at Black. T