 the  camera remains static throughout, with long takes broken only by the  intertitles. The Jack Johnson of the title was the world Heavyweight  boxing champion of his day. Sanders was beginning a short career as  a child star, best known for a series of films as Little Willy for  the French company Éclair. Like many impresarios of the early silent  era, Walter Tyler was something of a generalist, involved in  production, distribution and equipment manufacture. One of a number  of small production houses, his company issued a variety of  comedies, travelogues (for example a series entitled Historic Spots  of Old London) and zoological films. After Tylers death in 1909,  the company split in two, with the equipment sales handled by the  Tyler Apparatus Co., while the Tyler Film Company took over the  production and distribution work.