High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Corbett-Fitzsimmons Fight is an 1897 documentary film directed by Enoch J. Rector depicting a boxing match between James J. Corbett and Bob Fitzsimmons in Carson City, Nevada on St. Patrick`s Day the same year. Originally running at over 100 minutes, it was the longest film that had ever been released to date; as such, it was the world`s first feature film. The technology that allowed this is known as the Latham loop, and Rector was a rival for claiming the invention of the device. He used three such equipped cameras placed adjacently and filming on 63mm nitrate film. Only fragments of the film survive today. The known fragments were transferred from a print owned by Jean A. Le Roy of New York City.