The Boxing Kangaroo

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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.

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  • sports
  • silent film
  • kangaroo

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Director

Birt Acres

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United Kingdom

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  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical6 Jan 1896

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The Boxing Kangaroo was released on 6 January 1896.

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