Das boxende Känguruh

Name: Das boxende Känguruh
Genre: Short, Sport
Released: 1895-11-01
Duration: 1 min
Rating: 5.2
Cast: Delaware

1895
1m

IMDb RATING

5.2/10

679

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Short Sport

The third sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, a man and a kangaroo stand up in front of each other with boxing gloves, and simulate a boxing ma... Read allThe third sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, a man and a kangaroo stand up in front of each other with boxing gloves, and simulate a boxing match on a theatre stage.The third sequence of the "Wintergartenprogramm (1895)" by the Skladanowsky Brothers. In it, a man and a kangaroo stand up in front of each other with boxing gloves, and simulate a boxing match on a theatre stage.

Director
- Max Skladanowsky
Star
- Delaware

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IMDb RATING

5.2/10

679

YOUR RATING

Director
- Max Skladanowsky
Star
- Delaware

See production info at IMDbPro

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Delaware

The Boxer
(as Mr. Delaware)

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6EasonVonn

2.25.2024

This is really essential as an early cinema that presents how they can deconstruct the camera, not just recording the reality or making even a fictional story, but also a way to entertain people with such a "deceitful" kangaroo boxing.

The film at that moment is coming to a comic-skit-theatre era.

This is really essential as an early cinema that presents how they can deconstruct the camera, not just recording the reality or making even a fictional story, but also a way to entertain people with such a "deceitful" kangaroo boxing.

The film at that moment is coming to a comic-skit-theatre era.

5Kitahito

Anticlimactic ending.

Sadly, not much happening in this one, aside of the sheer magnificence of a guy fighting a kangaroo (Skladanowsky was way ahead of his time). I waited for a KO, or at least an epic Rocky-esk ending where the battling parties get frozen in a Schrödinger's frame just before the punches connect, so we can't decide who won and who lost... but this isn't the most perfect of the created worlds, and here we are, without climax or catharsis. I'm disappointed.

5boblipton

Hippety Hooper's Great-Grand-Dad

I agree with the other reviewer that there's something bizarrely entertaining about a boxing kangaroo, mostly because this one doesn't seem to know what, if anything, it is supposed to be doing. In all the other times I have seen boxing kangaroos, from 1920s silent comedies to Warner Brothers cartoons, the kangaroos seem at ease with the concept. Here, the kangaroo looks like you'd imagine a large Australian herbivore would look like if you stuck 18-ounce gloves on its paws and grappled with it: inert and confused.