The Boxing Kangaroo (1896)

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.

Date de sortie
1896-01-06
TMDB
4.6 / 10 (12)
Durée
1 min
Genres
Documentaire
Réalisateur
Birt Acres

Anecdotes

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. It features a young boy boxing with a kangaroo and was long considered lost. Its as rediscovered when footage from an 1896 Fairground Programme was identified as being from the film. The programme had originally been shown iat Hull Fair, the a portable booth run by Midlands photographer George Williams, and was later donated to the National Fairground Archive.

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