Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: First Test Match
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- British Movietone News
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- Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: First Test Match . South Africans Versus England. DESCRIPTION: The last three days of the Test provided quite a few sensations, the second day saw South Africa all out for a record score. Melville became one of the few who have scored a century in both innings in a Test Match. SHOTLIST: Cut For South Africa - KS GV and pan of cricket pitch, crowds etc. SV crowds. LS play. CU types watching cricket. GV crowds. CU Hollies bowling to Dawson, Godfrey Evans stumps him. Dawson walks off. SCU Tuckett LBW to Hollies. SCU Martin bowling, Evans tries to stump Lindsay, but he is not out. SCU slips applaud, and walk towards wicket. Elevated South Africans last two batsmen walk off with England’s team. Len Hutton and Cyril Washbrook walk onto bat. CU Bill Edrich batting, hitting out. CU Denis Compton batting. Compton and Edrich walk onto bat. Elevated GV pitch. Compton caught out in slips. Compton walks off. Dollery batting CU. CU Cyril Washbrook batting. CU Edrich batting. CU types watching game. Compton batting, Yardley batting. MS Yardley batting makes his 50. Acknowledging the crowd. Cut-in of crowd. Compton batting runs between wickets, with much effort. MS scoreboard. Compton out, walks off. CU Evans batting. Cut-in crowds. Norman Yardley out caught Tuckett, Yardley walks off into camera. Evans batting makes his 50. Scoreboard shot. Cut-in of crowds. Elevated shot of pitch. England fielding, Melville batting CU. Crowd shot. Melville runs between wickets.
- Local distribution only
- South Africa only
- Keywords
- Sport; Cricket
- Locations
- Nottingham; Trent Bridge
- Card file number
- 48679
- Credits:
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- Camera
- Kenneth Higgins
- Commentator
- Lionel James Gamlin
- Camera
- Martin Gray
- Length of story (in feet)
- 318
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