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Australasian Gazette – Test Cricketers (c.1926)

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Test cricketers

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This newsreel from about 1926 shows Australian cricketers, including Warren Bardsley and WM Woodfull, while on tour in England. It also features English cricketer JB (Jack) Hobbs. The Australian cricket team walk onto the field at Headingley Oval, England. Highlights of a cricket match are shown including Bardsley and Woodfull batting. It then cuts to Arthur Mailey bowling. Various close-ups are then shown of cricketers including Jack Hobbs, MA Noble, Clem Hill, Arthur Mailey, Percy Fender filming the press photographers with his home movie camera and Gar Waddy. The newsreel clip ends with Percy Penman bowling to Dr Reg Bettington.

Curator’s notes

by Elizabeth Taggart-Speers

This newsreel clip seems to have lost its original sequence. The intertitles are very short and footage seems to be edited in a way that lacks continuity. Although now not suitable for projection, it includes some valuable footage of the Australian and English cricket teams from the 1920s.

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