The Boxing Kangaroo
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| File:TheBoxingKangaroo.jpg Screenshot from the film | |
| Directed by | Birt Acres |
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| Cinematography | Birt Acres |
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| 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]
It was one of at least four boxing-themed films Acres produced in 1896, the others being Boxing Match; or, Glove Contest, A Boxing Match in Two Rounds by Sgt. Instructor F.Barrett and Sgt. Pope and A Prize Fight by Jem Mace and Burke.[2][3] The year before, German filmmaker Max Skladanowsky had made a similar film depicting a man boxing with a kangaroo, entitled Das boxende Känguruh.[3]
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- The Boxing Kangaroo at Silent Era
- 1896 films
- 1896 short films
- 1890s British films
- British black-and-white films
- British silent short films
- Films directed by Birt Acres
- 1890s short documentary films
- Black-and-white documentary films
- British boxing films
- Films about kangaroos and wallabies
- 1890s rediscovered films
- British short documentary films
- Rediscovered British films
- British silent film stubs
- Pre-1900 film stubs
- Silent documentary short film stubs