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The Arrest of a Pickpocket

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The Arrest of a Pickpocket
Screencap from the film
Directed byBirt Acres
Produced by
CinematographyBirt Acres
Production
company
Robert W. Paul
Release date
  • May 1895 (1895-05)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageSilent

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

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  1. ^ "The Arrest of a Pickpocket". BFI Film & TV Database. Archived from the original on 23 October 2012. Retrieved 24 April 2011.
  2. ^ "The Arrest of a Pickpocket". Silent Era. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
  3. ^ "A brief History: A 1896 Fairground Programme - The George Williams Collection". Europa Film Treasures. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
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