The Boxing Kangaroo (1896)

01/06/1896 (GB) • 1m

Documentary

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.

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Status

Released

Original Language

No Language

Budget

-

Revenue

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Keywords

sports

silent film

kangaroo

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