The 2nd Test at Lord’s

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1047A

Date Released

30 Jun 1949

Date submitted

27 Jun 1949

Stories in this Issue:

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Story

Story No. within this Issue

6 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Test Match - Lord’s. DESCRIPTION: The Duke of Edinburgh meets the rival captains before the toss-up. England open the batting, reaching 313 for 9, Mann, not thinking, declared which is illegal on the first day of a three day Test Match. As New Zealand didn’t lose any wickets it was overlooked. SHOTLIST: KS. Queues outside Lord’s. Various shots of queues. Elevated GV crowds inside ground. Duke of Edinburgh meets the captains (Mann & Hadlee). LS play. Cowie bowls Robertson LBW. Various shots of types seated in paper hats etc. shading themselves from the sun. Cut-in Attlee & Bevin watching. Trevor Bailey batting. Denis Compton batting. Evans clean bowled. Gladwin skies ball, Hadlee drops same. LS of play. Martin Donelly (NZ), batting scored over a double century. Donelly acknowledge crowd.

Keywords

Royalty; Sport; Cricket

Locations

Lord’s Cricket Ground, London

Card file number

52178

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell
Camera: Martin Gray
Camera: Paul Wyand

Length of story (in feet)

165

Story extras:

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