Samuel Hawley's most recent book is The Fight That Started the Movies: The World Heavyweight Championship, the Birth of Cinema and the First Feature Film. His other books include Speed Duel: The Inside Story of the Land Speed Record in the Sixties, which was recently optioned by Company Pictures, and the thriller Homeowner With a Gun, which Hawley is currently developing into a feature film in collaboration with Hollywood director Paul A. Kaufman. His website is samuelhawley.com. 
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There was just one hitch: Rector and his camera operators had to be inside the camera. * * * On March 17, 1897, in an open-air arena in Carson City,[…]
