Day of the Fight composer Gerald Fried
Production
Kubrick and 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 Kubrick did not catch the knock-out punch which ended the bout because he was reloading. Singer did, however.Day of the Fight is the first film credit on composer Gerald Fried's resume. Kubrick did not pay him for his work in scoring the production. "He thought the very fact that my doing the music"  for the film "got me into the profession was enough payment", Fried told The Guardian in 2018, although he conceded in the same newspaper interview that Kubrick's point was accurate. A childhood friend of Kubrick, Fried later composed the score for the director's Paths of Glory (1957) and three other films.Since the original planned buyer of the documentary went out of business, Kubrick was able to sell Day of the Fight to RKO Pictures for $4,000, resulting in only a net profit of $100 for him after paying the film's $3,900 in production costs. However, the physicist and author Jeremy Bernstein, who in November 1965 conducted a 76-minute interview with Kubrick for The New Yorker, documented that the project was actually not a break-even endeavor, that it instead lost $100.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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