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The Battling Kangaroo

1926/18 min 0 sec/176 shots

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This silent slapstick comedy follows a young worker whose troubles draw him into the world of a traveling boxing show. He encounters coworkers, a woman, several performers, and a formally dressed man, while an intertitle delivers the threat, “I’ll put you in jail for making me miss my boat.” A taxi ride, falls, confrontations, and other physical mishaps keep disrupting his efforts.

The action culminates before a crowd in a makeshift boxing ring, where men try to manage a kangaroo as though the animal were a prizefighter. The kangaroo grapples with a boxer and sends the people around it scrambling, turning the staged contest into comic disorder.

Provenance and rights

Original producer: Jules White
Collection: Wikimedia Commons / original source recorded on file page
Original title: The Battling Kangaroo
Date: 1926
Original link: Open on commons.wikimedia.org
Rights: public_domain

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