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"Movie buffs and boxing buffs alike will relish this!"(Publishers Weekly) "An extremely well-researched tale."(Kirkus Reviews) On March 17, 1897, in an open-air arena in Carson City, Jim Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons fought for the heavyweight championship of the world. The contest was recorded by film pioneer Enoch Rector from inside an immense, human-powered camera called the "Veriscope," the forgotten Neanderthal at the dawn of cinema history. Rector's movie of the contest premiered two months later. Known today as The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight, it was the world's first feature-length film. The Fight That Started the Movies is the untold story of Corbett's and Fitzsimmons' journey to that ring in Nevada and how the landmark film of their battle came to be made.