John Raftery amateur boxer | Steven Keller | ACMI collection

John Raftery, one of Canada’s boxing hopefuls for a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games at Edmonton in 1978 is seen training for the fight in his hometown and in the match for the gold medal at Edmonton

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Credits

director

Steven Keller

co-producer

Jacques Bobet

Peter Katadotis

Duration

00:28:00:00

Production places

Unknown

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

015941

Language

English

Subject categories

Hobbies, Recreation & Sport → Boxing

Short films

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

Betamax; Access Print (Section 1)

MOV file ProRes4444; Digital Preservation Master - overscan

MPEG-4 Digital File; ACMI Digital Access Copy - overscan

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