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The Arrest of a Pickpocket is a British film directed by Birt Acres

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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. 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.



^ "The Arrest of a Pickpocket". BFI Film & TV Database. Retrieved 2011-04-24.

^ "The Arrest of a Pickpocket". Silent Era. Retrieved 2011-05-25.

^ "A brief History: A 1896 Fairground Programme - The George Williams Collection". Europa Film Treasures. Retrieved 2011-05-25.
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