The Boxing Kangaroo (1896)

Run Time: 0h1m | Release: 06 Jan 1896

Production Countries: United Kingdom

4.667 / 109 Vote Count

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.