''The Boxing Kangaroo'' is an 1896

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short

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silent

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, produced and directed by

Birt Acres Birt Acres (23 July 1854 – 27 December 1918) was an American and British photographer and film pioneer. Among his contributions to the early film industry are the first working 35 mm camera in Britain (Wales), and ''Birtac'', the firs ...

for exhibition on

Robert W. Paul Robert William Paul (3 October 1869 – 28 March 1943) was an English pioneer of film and scientific instrument maker. He made narrative films as early as April 1895. Those films were shown first in Edison Kinetoscope knockoffs. In 1896 he s ...

'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. 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''. The year before, German filmmaker

Max Skladanowsky Max Skladanowsky (30 April 1863 – 30 November 1939) was a German inventor and early filmmaker. Along with his brother Emil, he invented the Bioscop, an early movie projector the Skladanowsky brothers used to display a moving picture show to a p ...

had made a similar film depicting a man boxing with a kangaroo, entitled ''Das boxende Känguruh''.

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