Leonard and Cushing participate in a six-round boxing match under special conditions that allow for it to be filmed and displayed on a Kinetograph.

In the sixth round Cushing, trapped by a feint, dropped his guard and stopped a swift right and left chop to the jaw."

[2] Twelve feet of film were shot either in May or June 1891, featuring two of Edison Manufacturing Company employees, pretending to spar in a boxing ring.

Edison's business partners, Otway and Grey Latham, Enoch J. Rector, and Samuel J. Tilden Jr., sought to commercialize the popularity of the device.

The group chose prizefighting as an easy subject to capture, but the Kinetescope needed further development to properly display a fight.

[6] Heise and Dickson experimented with various New York based boxers, namely Kid Lavigne, Young Griffo and Jack McAuliffe, who all dropped out of the project.

[12] Leonard told the paper that he: "generally hit 'im in the face, because I felt sorry for his family and thought I would select only place that couldn't be disfigured.

"[5] The Leonard–Cushing Fight premiered on August 4, 1894, in a Kinetescope parlor owned by the Latham's brother Kinetoscope Exhibiting Company in 83 Nassau Street (Manhattan).

According to Ramsaye, "throngs packed the place and by the second day two long lines of waiting patrons trailed back into the street on either side of the entrance.

"[1] Gamache claims that "the relative obscurity of the fighters, both of whom were from Brooklyn, and the fact that viewers could opt to pay for only the knockout round contributed to the lack of success of the Lathams’ parlor.

According to an article published in The Sun on June 16, 1894, New Jersey's grand jury investigated a potential prize fight in Edison's studio.