The Arrest of a Pickpocket
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Directed byBirt Acres
Produced by
- Birt Acres
- Robert W. Paul
CinematographyBirt Acres
Production
company
company
Robert W. Paul
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| Directed by | Birt Acres |
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| Cinematography | Birt Acres |
Production company | Robert W. Paul |
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| 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]
