Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: First Test Match

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

941

Date Released

16 Jun 1947

Date submitted

12 Jun 1947

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Sir Malcolm at Coniston
2. 2Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Princess Elizabeth Becomes London Freeman
3. 3Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Trooping the Colour, 1947
4. *Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: First Test Match

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Section Title

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:

Camera

Kenneth Higgins

Commentator

Lionel James Gamlin

Camera

Martin Gray

Length of story (in feet)

318

Story extras:

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