Production
Kubrick and Alexander Singer used daylight-loading Eyemo cameras that take 100-foot spools of 35mm black-and-white film to shoot the fight, with Kubrick shooting hand-held (often from below) and Singer's camera on a tripod. The 100-foot reels required constant reloading, and when the knock-out punch which ended the bout came, Kubrick didn't catch it because he was reloading. Fortunately, Singer did.
Day of the Fight is the first credit on composer Gerald Fried's resume. Fried, a childhood friend of Stanley Kubrick, went on to score or conduct (or both) over 100 films. In 1977, he shared an Emmy Award with Quincy Jones for the music for the TV mini-series Roots, and was nominated for an Academy Award in 1976 for Birds Do It, Bees Do It.
Although the original planned buyer of the picture went out of business, Kubrick was able to sell Day of the Fight to RKO Pictures for $4,000, making a small benefit of $100 above the $3,900 cost of making the film.
Day of the Fight was released as part of RKO-Pathé's "This Is America" series and premiered on 26 April 1951 at New York's Paramount Theater, on the same program as the film My Forbidden Past. Frank Sinatra headlined the live stage show that day.
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