https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/3c7fd848-206e-407a-8091-226b3ed80041 Love our channel? Help us save and post more orphaned films! Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Even a really tiny contribution can make a difference. Glad you enjoyed it! Subscribe and consider becoming a channel member https://youtu.be/ODBW3pVahUE Released by Castle Films for sale to the home market in the 1940s, "Joe Louis' Famous Fights" is a silent highlight reel showing the "Brown Bomber's" best matches. It begins with Louis as champion facing Billy Conn. This match occurred on on June 18, 1941, in front of a crowd of 54,487 fans at the Polo Grounds in New York City. It is commonly considered one of the greatest heavyweight boxing fights of all time. Louis knocked Conn out with two seconds left in the thirteenth round (5:15). At 5:46 the film shows Louis as champion in a rematch with Buddy Baer, brother of Max Baer, on January 9, 1942. The venue is Madison Square Garden. Baer, who hid the fact that he was suffering from a neck injury received in an auto accident, couldn't put up a proper fight. Louis downed Baer twice in the first round and then knocked him out. The film ends with Sgt. Joe Louis in his U.S. Army uniform saluting the audience. At the time, Louis had enlisted and had volunteered to be the focus of a recruitment campaign aimed at African-American men, despite the military's racial segregation. When he was asked about this seeming contradiction, Louis famously said: "Lots of things wrong with America, but Hitler ain't going to fix them." Joseph Louis Barrow (May 13, 1914 – April 12, 1981) competed from 1934 to 1951. Nicknamed the Brown Bomber, Louis is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential boxers of all time. He reigned as the world heavyweight champion from 1937 until his temporary retirement in 1949. He was victorious in 25 consecutive title defenses, a record for all weight classes.Louis had the longest single reign as champion of any boxer in history. Louis's is widely regarded as the first person of African-American descent to achieve the status of a nationwide hero within the United States, and was also a focal point of anti-Nazi sentiment leading up to and during World War II because of his historic rematch with German boxer Max Schmeling in 1938. He was instrumental in integrating the game of golf, breaking the sport's color barrier in America by appearing under a sponsor's exemption in a PGA event in 1952 Motion picture films don't last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. We collect, scan and preserve 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have films you'd like to have scanned or donate to Periscope Film, we'd love to hear from you. Contact us via the link below. This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtWEZ2FeR8I Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Thu, 11 Jun 2026 06:47:08 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/3c7fd848-206e-407a-8091-226b3ed80041 All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.