USA / BOXING: New York flocks to Joe Louis fight (1939)

BRITISH PARAMOUNT NEWSREEL (REUTERS) To license this film, visit What goes on behind the scenes at a big fight? British Paramount News attends the? Full Description: USA: New York: Madison Square Garden: EXT/NIGHT Night scenes of Madison Square Garden / sign “Madison Square Garden.. Louis - Lewis Fight tonight“ / announcer Bill Slater arriving INT V iew of ring / Gloves being put on Joe Louis / John Barrymore & wife Elaine at ringside / G-man (secret service) and J. Edgar Hoover (Director of the FBI) / Colonel Kilpatrick & Sonja Henie (Norwegian actress and figure skater) / Herbert Swope & Gene Tunney (boxer) / Stanton Griffis and Mrs. Durant / Bill Slater climbing into seat Lewis being introduced “John Henry Lewis“... pan to Louis being introduced “and the Heavyweight Champion, Joe Louis“...Louis does little dance / fighters in ring for instruction / Louis and Lewis walk back to seats &
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