New Zealanders at Cricket Headquarters

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1042A

Date Released

26 May 1949

Date submitted

24 May 1949

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Royal Guests at Windsor Wedding
2. 2New Zealanders at Cricket Headquarters
3. 3Rita Hayworth to Wed at Riviera Chateau
4. 4Big 4 Meet in Paris
5. 5Philadelphia Orchestra Rehearses for British Tour. (Exclusive Pictures)
6. *Mr Churchill’s Call to Scotland
7. *Big Golf Prize Won by Haliburton
8. *Trailer - Reaping the Benefit
9. *Glasgow Highland Games

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 5

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: New Zealanders at Cricket Hq. DESCRIPTION: At Lord’s the New Zealanders make their first appearance playing the MCC. Both teams were presented to the King and Queen during the tea interval. SHOTLIST: KS. GV Lord’s cricket ground, crowds. Ditto. GV play. SCU Burtt bowls to Mann. Cut-in crowds. MCC come out to field. SCU Bailey bowls Sutcliffe - out. SCU Wallace hitting ball - caught out. Bailey bowls Donnelly - caught out. SCU Hadlee playing defensive stroke. King & Queen onto field, meet teams, New Zealanders first. SCU King talking to Denis Compton, also Queen talking to Denis Compton.

Local distribution only

Not shown in Scotland.

Keywords

Royalty; Sport; Cricket

Locations

Lord’s Cricket Ground, London

Footage sources

Gaumont British News Rota

Card file number

51995

Credits:

Camera

Alec Tozer

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Camera

Martin Gray

Length of story (in feet)

134

Story extras:

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