After dinner the champion lay down for a short nap but his dreams were disturbed by the arrival of the American mutascope and biograph men who are to take the pictures of the fight. They brought a wagon-load of paraphernalia with them and they took pictures of Jeffries and his trainer in different groups and the champion and his trainers at different exercises. The afternoon was practically given up to the picture men and to entertaining a crowd of New York sporting men who took a run down here to look the champion over. Among the visitors were Con McVey, Dan O'Rourke. Jack Costello, Will Kennedy, John Reagan, Wallace McCutcheon and Arthur Mann. They were well pleased with Jeffries' condition, and Dan O'Rourke remarked that he was in far better shape than when he fought Fitzsimmons.
"Yes," said Trainer Billy Delaney, "he is a wonder. Jim's improvement has been remarkable., and while he has pulled off about fifteen pounds of flesh, he seems to grow stronger with each day.

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The Philadelphia Inquirer, Philadelphia, 31 octobre 1899, p. 6.

HERMAN CASLER’S BIOGRAPH
Scores a Great Triumph—Pictures of Jeffries-Sharkey Battle.
Herman Casler, Inventor of the great American biograph, is home from New York, where he wont last week to assist in taking pictures or the Jeffries-Sharkey fight for the championship of the the world at Coney Island Friday night. Mr.Caster's partner in the manufacturing of the biograph, H. N. Marvin, of this village and New York, is also here. Both gentlemen are highly pleased over the pictures taken.
The work accomplished Friday night is considered one of the greatest of the many astonishing triumphs of the biograph, and also an oye-openor for rival makers of picture machines. The pictures taken were the first entirely successful ones ever obtained at such a great speed without daylight. Soon Mr. Casler's wonderful invention will be showing people all over the land the contest from the time the fighters stopped into the ring until Referee Slier pointed to Jeffries's corner, time declaring the boiler maker still the champion.
Jeffries and Sharkey fought their hurricane battle practically ln the full glare of an X-ray light, which was necessary in order that the pictures could be obtained. Above the heads of the figures, hardly five, feet away, were arranged 400 electric lamps in a square of twenty feet. Each lamp was of 2,000 candle power, making the enormous total of 480,000 candle power. The great search-light exhibited at the Chicago Exposition was far less powerful. Four hundred and seventy-five horse power was required to run the lamps.
It was warm for the fighters and the front row spectators, but the thousands on the raised scats, in comparative darkness, could get a fine view of the ring and its occupants beneath the 800,000 candle power glare.
Messrs. Casler and Marvin, together with other officers and experts of the American Biograph and Mutoscope company, were on a platform near to and level with the ring. On the platform were four biograph cameras used in taking the pictures. The cameras were used alternately, one taking up the fight as the operation of another was stopped to be "loaded" with film. By this method, as previously stated, the whole fight was obtained without a break. Each camera took two or three rounds of the battle per run.
The strips of film used in taking the fight measure 7 1/2 miles in length.There was a continuous run of the film lasting one hour and ten minutes.
"The pictures,” said Mr. Casler to a JOURNAL reporter Monday evening, "are bright and crisp, and will doubtless excite an enormous amount of interest."
The story published in some of the dally papers Monday to the effect that rivals of the biograph people had seven men, each with a picture machine strapped around his waist, about tho ring, each ln turn taking pictures of a round, does not worry Messrs. Casler and Marvin and their colleagues. In the first place the story is probably a fake; and in the second such pictures taken in the manner described, could not compare with tho complete and highly satisfactory ones taken for Mr. Casler's world-famed machine.

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The Canastota Bee, Canastota, samedi 11 novembre 1899, p. 8.

PICTURES A SUCCESS.
Reproduction of Jeffries-Sharkey Contest all that was Hoped For. "The pictures don't lie. I'll leave it to the public to decide which man won," cried Tom Sharkey ecstatically, says the New York Telegraph, as he saw himself slashing at champion Jeffries in the testing room of the American Mutoscope and Biograph Company at Nº. 841 Broadway, where a private exhibition of the moving pictures taken at Coney Island on the night of Nov. 3 was given.
It was a marvelous picturing of the championship battle. The screen was only half the size to be used in the public exhibitions, but each detail of the rounds shown stood out as plainly as though the men who looked on in the flesh were really in the place of the intangible figures which represented them.
The muscle play appears in the minutest detail. Every shift in expression is shown, and there are times when the champion's face is a study in perplexity. The water thrown on the men showers like sliver in the air, and the emotions of the managers and seconds are portrayed perfectly A large section of the box area appears, and it, too, is vastly interesting.
Brady, Julian, Sharkey and the favored few who saw the pictures projected on the screen were speechless during the exhibition.
Fighters and Managers Present.
Arthur E Johnstone, who devised the method by which the pictures were taken, handled the mutoscope. He was assisted by Wallace McCutcheon, Those who saw the exhibition were Thomas Sharkey, one of the principals in the pictured contest; Tom O'Rourke. manager of Sharkey, and part owner of the pictures; William A. Brady, manager of Jeffries, also interested in the pictures; Lee Harrison, Max Rogers, Gus Rogers and a representative of the Morning Telegraph.
When the party met there was considerable jollying back and forth, made interesting by sharp dashes of sentiment not at all humorous, but meant very seriously. The company had a series of enlarged photographs showing critical moments and clean hits, which were examined while the mutoscope was being prepared for the exhibition.
Nothing as good as the enlarged photographs of the fight have ever been shown since the camera began to play a part in ring history. In one Sharkey lifts Jeffries clean off his feet with a left jolt on the front of the jaw. The champion is shown clearly off the canvas with his head back and Tom's powerful arm lifting him up. In another Sharkey lands a tremendous righthand punch flush on the jaw. Every Muscle in Blow.

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The Buffalo Review, Buffalo, 13 novembre 1899, p. 2.