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Former Australian cricketers Ian Chappell and Ray Lindwall compare the Australian teams of 1948 and the mid-1970s.
Curator’s notes
Ray Lindwall is less diplomatic than Chappell, and his view of the superiority of the 1948 side is calmly but forcefully put. Chappell, with less distance from his professional career, offers the classic sort of no-content reply that professional sports people are trained to give the media, offering little insight.
Filmed twenty years ago, this interview has been shot using very bright lights that have flattened out the subjects. These days, video camera technology allows filming with little or no artifical lighting – something unheard of in 1987. Other clues to the period in which this interview was shot are the people moving around in the glass reflection in the background. In 1987, a director was reliant on the camera operator to monitor the shot, and movement in reflections could be easily overlooked at the time of shooting.
