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Sport - Cricket - Portable Pitch

Date released

10 Mar 1949

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1031A

NoS ID

015614

Story no

2 / 10

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Cricket - Portable Pitch. DESCRIPTION: At Ashford, Middlesex, well known cricketers try out a new cricket pitch of pre-cast concrete. SHOTLIST: KS Cricketers inspect wicket. Placing...

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How I Won the War (1967)

Director

Richard Lester

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (PAL, 111 minutes), £19.99

Lieutenant Goodbody enthusiastically leads his troops in a series of dreadful debacles on the battlefields of the Second World War, before receiving orders to install a cricket pitch behind enemy lines. A...

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Richard II (1997 Television)

Director

Deborah Warner

Producer

John Wyver; Shaun Deeney

A production, re-staged for television, of the National Theatre’s 1995 production of Richard II directed by Deborah Warner with Fiona Shaw in the title role.

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Ocean Sound This Week No.33: Programme 33 of a weekly news and sports review (1987)

Ocean Sound This Week No. 33 Programme 33 of a weekly news and sports review called Ocean Sound This Week, broadcast by independent radio station Ocean Sound on 7 June 1987. Presented by MATT HOPPER. TRACK...

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Reaching a Pitch

Date released

Jun 1938

Series name

Ace Cinemagazine

Issue no

68

NoS ID

349176

Story no

1 / 4

NoS synopsis: The making of cricket bats

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One Minute News

Date released

10 Mar 1949

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

49/20

NoS ID

102810

Story no

3 / 6

Extras

1 film clip, 1 commentary sheet, 1 shot list

A prefabricated concrete cricket pitch comes under inspection by England test cricket selector, RWV Robins, and test player Bill Edrich. It is hoped to lay these pitches in many parts of the country.

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It’s Not Cricket

Date released

28 Aug 1958

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1525A

NoS ID

022570

Story no

2 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: It’s Not Cricket. DESCRIPTION: Richard Hearne inspected the pitch, at Woolwich, before the big match: Lord’s Taverners V American Amateurs. . Transatlantic cricket has been played...

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The Capetown Test

Date released

7 Jan 1957

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

1440

NoS ID

021408

Story no

1 / 7

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Capetown Test. DESCRIPTION: On the beautiful Newlands Ground at Capetown, England reached a formidable 369, in the 2nd test. SHOTLIST: Peter May and McGlew toss the coin. May wins....

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Hockey Match

Date released

22 Oct 1967

Series name

Pathe News

Issue no

67/85

NoS ID

112821

Story no

5 / 7

Extras

1 film clip

Is nothing sacred? One of the world’s most hallowed centres of cricket became a hockey pitch. But it was all part of the pre-Olympic Hockey Tournament, and they didn’t let them get anywhere near the wicket.

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Winter Cricket - At Cricket’s Birthplace

Date released

3 Jan 1929

Series name

Pathe Gazette

Issue no

1569; Super Issue No.: 29-1

NoS ID

087339

Story no

5 / 8

Extras

1 film clip

The invalids meet and beat Hampshire "Erskines" on famous old pitch on Broadhalfpenny Down.

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