The Arrest of a Pickpocket | |
Director: | Birt Acres |
Cinematography: | Birt Acres |
Studio: | Robert W. Paul |
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]