Harry Greb-Walker film 1978?

it's a shame you didn't find that stuff but it's people like you who keep the history alive.

we thank you for your efforts.

 

I'm surprised Burt hasn't weighed in on this yet....

 

...That post by Craig Long in The Sweet Science.com was a few lines long but had nothing like a lead except perhaps for the city where he claimed to have see the film.

 

Since no one else has said anything allow me to say Steve, that I hope your father beats that cancer as thoroughly as Greb beat Tunney(I), Ali beat Cleve Williams or Tyson beat Spinks. In other words, completely and conclusively:good

 

Thank you Doug. Means a lot.

And to those saying that its thought I might have Greb film because of all the film I do have from that era. Well, I got all that film in the search for a Greb film. Its great, and sad, that Ive turned up so much and yet nothing on Greb. Its mind boggling.

 

I'll second that, it's tough when family isn't doing well. Wishing you and your family the best. God bless.

 

What is the overall opinion of the forum about footage on Greb? I mean, do people think there is footage out there an someones got it in there private collection or that all footage is long since gone an we'll never get to see him in action?

 

Slakka can confirm the film was shown in Syracuse in July 1925 only!

 

I could be wrong nut I don't remember him saying what city he saw it in. I read that post several times over the past year and a half hoping he would respond to a question I had about it.

 

I think some unknowing family member of a famous fight fan (an actor, singer, writer or athlete) has it collecting dust in an attic or basement, not knowing its worth. Like the Bing Crosby family unknowingly having the complete Pirates-Yankees World Series in their possession(which was discovered recently to a great media hoopla).

Hopefully someday they will put on the scuba gear, dive in and find it.

 

If the Greb training film from 1990 was discovered at a university in south Carolina, maybe an uncatalogued library collection somewhere else?

 

Indeed. But now that we're in the internet era I'm thinking it might be more of a possibility, especially with libraries and universities digitizing their collections. Time will tell.

I wonder what Jim Jacobs would have been able to track down with today's computer technology and research advances? Could he have found that elusive Greb fight? What a thought....