Past the 6 minute mark you can see Jack & Jess stepping on the scales,Jack shaking hands with his second Sam McVey ,and shaking hands with Jim Corbett,[rather surprising imo]. http://www.archive.org/details/JackJohnsonNewsreel
Once again you have added a terrific post to this forum ... this extended version offers clips I have never seen before in their complete form ... terrific job and thanks for the post !
Weird, I guess back in the day you could scream racial epithets at someone till you're blue in the face, then go shake their hand and have a joke... It looks like Sam's process took a recess.
Great clip Mc. The little bout at the end between Jack Johnson and Joe Jeannette in 1945 was refereed by Harry Wills. A year or two before this "fight', I and my dad shook hands with Lil Arther at a flea circus in NY. And one year after this clip of johnson/Jeannette, Jack Johnson died in a car accident driving to the second Joe Louis / Billy Conn fight in 1946...Jack Johnson was a bright and erudite man,and quite a character...
The clip of him sparring southpaw is actually the result of improper copying or projection procedures. Neither Johnson nor his sparring partner were southpaws. Stand right handed in front of a mirror sometime, and you'll look like a southpaw.
Jack Johnson speaking as an old man before the Jeanette exhibition, 1945. ... he sounds like a trained actor. To my English ears anyway, that sounds like quite a posh accent/delivery, but maybe it's a Galveston drawl.
I think it goes back to the Jeffries fight in Reno, Corbett kept shouting insults at Jack ,and Jack would make a rejoinder that topped Corbett every time. Johnson was an admirer of Corbetts talent as a boxer,and Corbett later referred to Johnson as," The Emperor Fistiana". Johnson said to Nat Fleischer, " that's the nicest thing anyone ever said about me."
Johnson cultivated an English accent , he could speak three languages, but was most often quoted in the racist papers as speaking stereo typical , "****** talk," "yassir boss, I's a coming", crap.
Yeah, I wouldn't put much stock in what things these guys shouted at each other during a fight. Corbett was Jeffries' corner man, and probably knew Jeffries had a slim chance of winning, so he'd try to do anything to put Johnson off his game, no doubt.
it makes you wonder if even a shred of the substance of most quotes are even based on actual interviews. Most of this stuff is probably completely made up.
