Movie Description

The Boxing Kangaroo

The Boxing Kangaroo

(1896)

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.

Facts

Original TitleThe Boxing Kangaroo

Status Released

Release Information

  • 1896-01-06

Original LanguageUnknown

Runtime 00h 01m

Production CompaniesBirt Acres

Genres

  • Documentary