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The Boxing Kangaroo
4.6Released

The Boxing Kangaroo

18961mDocumentary

Overview

The Boxing Kangaroo is an 1896 British short black-and-white silent documentary film, produced and directed by Birt Acres for exhibition on Robert W. Paul’s peep show Kinetoscopes, featuring a young boy boxing with a kangaroo. The film was considered lost until footage from an 1896 Fairground Programme, originally shown in a portable booth at Hull Fair by Midlands photographer George Williams, donated to the National Fairground Archive was identified as being from this film.

Created By

Director
Birt Acres
Birt Acres
Status
Released
Original Title
The Boxing Kangaroo
Production Countries
United Kingdom