The Boxing Kangaroo (1896)
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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.
Release Date : January 6, 1896
Runtime : 1m
Genre : Documentary
Companies : Birt Acres
Countries : United Kingdom
Keywords : sports, silent film, kangaroo
