The Boxing Kangaroo | |
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Screenshot from the film |
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Directed by | Birt Acres |
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Cinematography | Birt Acres |
Release date(s) | January 1896 |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | Silent |
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.[1]