British Pathe — com­mon source for a large quan­tity of archival fenc­ing footage. Pre­view ver­sions are avail­able for free. Just search for “fenc­ing”. Here are some of the bet­ter ones: (P4)

Male Fenc­ing:

• “Fence & Keep Fit”, 1927
• Genoa Fenc­ing Cham­pi­onship, France v. Italy, 1938
• “Caught by the Cam­era”, 1955
• Czech Uni­veristy Stu­dents pre-military train­ing, 1946
• Nau­ti­cal Col­lege Founders Day cel­e­bra­tion, 1932
• “Fenc­ing on Ice”, 1947
• “Flash­ing Steel” old and new sabre, 1926
• Italy’s Young Fas­cists, 1930
• Per­sian Cal­varly & Fencers, 1951
• Prince of Olaf wins the Sav­age Epee Shield, 1926
• Rais­ing Air­man Fit­ness, 1950
• Boys Train­ing Ship “War­spite”, 1930

Women Fenc­ing:

• “Foiled”, women fencers, 1931
• Sportshots, Fenc­ing, 1933
• Women Fencers & Instruc­turess, 1937
• “Fair Foil­ers”, women fencers, 1932
• “Fencers & Foiler“s, women fencers & Pro­fes­sor Tas­sart Parkins , 1931
• “Fenc­ing in Fash­ion”, Ire­land, 1941
• “Fete Deau” fenc­ing by the pool, 1930
• Fenc­ing Prac­tice, 1946
• M’Lady of the Foil, 1931

Youth Fenc­ing:

• “Youth must have its Fence” Hun­gary, 1935
• “Boy Fencer”, 1955
• 5-year-old gets les­son from Pro­fes­sor Tassart
• “Foil­ing”, 6-year-old with Pro­fes­sor Fran­cis, 1949

Bay­o­net Drills

• British Train­ing Recruits (bay­o­net & sig­nalling), 1914
• Lat­est Bay­o­net Drill, 1941
• Lan­cashire Fusiliers at Bay­o­net Exer­cise, 1914
• National Army PT & Bay­o­net Cham­pi­onship, 1930
• Abyssin­ian war­riors prac­tice bay­o­net, 1930
• Con­va­les­cent Aus­tralian prac­tice bay­o­net drills, 1914

Chicago Daily News has some images from the US Library of Con­gress of fencers from 1902–1933. Do a word search for “fencing”.

Savate / Pugilism Footage: (var­i­ous sources)

• “The High Kicker, a Lady Boxer from France”
• 1946 Count Pierre Baruzy SAVATE — French boxing
• Roger LaFond method of canne, baton and french boxing
• SAVATE — FRENCH BOXING — BOXE FRANCAISE
• Ama­zons of Yes­ter­day, Woman v. Man box­ing, 1928