Sharkey fight. The film would be the first to  use electricity instead of sunlight. While the Biograph camera was  grinding away in the front row, the Vitagraph camera was grinding  away twenty rows back. When the Biograph boys discovered the  Vitagraph camera, they sent a crew of Pinkerton detectives to seize  the machine and film. The fight fans surrounding the Vitagraph  camera, unaware of the causes of the attack, manfully protected  their neighbor, producing more action outside the ring than in it.  Eventually Vitagraphs Albert E. Smith recorded the whole fight,  smuggled the film out of the arena, and developed it that night in  the Vitagraph lab. The next morning Smith discovered that the  pirated film had itself been pirated out of the lab by some  late