No poster

The Boxing Kangaroo

18961mNo ratings yet

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.

Keywords

sports
silent film
kangaroo

Details

Status: Released
Release date: January 6, 1896
Original language: English
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Birt Acres
Director: Birt Acres
Budget: Not recorded
Revenue: Not recorded
IMDb: tt0000048