The Arrest of a Pickpocket

The Arrest of a Pickpocket

Screencap from the film
Directed by Birt Acres
Produced by
Cinematography Birt Acres
Production
company
Robert W. Paul
Release dates
  • May 1895 (1895-05)
Country United Kingdom
Language Silent

The Arrest of a Pickpocket is an 1895 British short black-and-white silent crime film, produced and directed by Birt Acres for exhibition on Robert W. Paul's peep show Kinetoscopes, featuring a policeman catching a pickpocket with the assistance of a passing sailor.[1][2] 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.[3]

References

  1. "The Arrest of a Pickpocket". BFI Film & TV Database. Retrieved 2011-04-24.
  2. "The Arrest of a Pickpocket". Silent Era. Retrieved 2011-05-25.
  3. "A brief History: A 1896 Fairground Programme - The George Williams Collection". Europa Film Treasures. Retrieved 2011-05-25.
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