England Retain Ashes

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1263A

Date Released

20 Aug 1953

Date submitted

12 Aug 1953

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Final Test (Compton Hits Four to Win the Match & the Ashes). DESCRIPTION: Final Test. SHOTLIST: Cut story - Paul Wyand arrives at Oval. Sitting down to wait for opening with rugs and other paraphernalia. GV Gasometer. Various shots of queues passing through turnstiles. Hassett and Hutton toss up. Hassett wins. England taking field. Hassett and Morris coming out to bat. Bedser bowling. Trueman bowling. Morris out to Bedser. Bailey gets Miller LBW. Harvey bats, caught Hutton. Hassett out. Evans catching de Courcy. Hole out. Trueman. Bedser dismisses Archer. Lindwall bats, makes 62. End of Australian innings 275 total. Rollers used to roll pitch. Australians field. Hutton batting. Cap flies off. Play stops for bad light. Teams off into camera. (No Film?) - 2ND & 3RD DAY - Teams out. Hutton bats. Bailey bats. Bedser scores 4 to pass Aussies total 275. Bailey bowled. Crowds clapping, look through field glasses. England field. Aussies bat. Laker bowls takes 4 for 75. Lock bowls 5 for 45. Hassett LBW to Laker. Hole LBW. Harvey clean bowled by Lock. Miller caught off Laker. Morris LBW to Lock. De Courcy run out. Archer reaches 49. Langley caught, by Trueman off Lock. End of Australian innings. England batting. Hutton run out at start of innings. ENGLAND REGAIN THE ASHES - CARD 59576 (2995 ft). Cut story - Australians out to field. Crowded field showing gas holders in background and flying Union Flag and Australian flag. May and Edrich out to bat. May bats, Edrich batting. May out at 37, to fine catch by Davidson. Compton bats with Edrich. Hassett bowls. Morris bowls. Compton scores 4 to win rubber and the ashes. Crowds run onto pitch. Edrich and Compton battle their way through back to pavilion. Hutton and others on balcony, brings forward Hassett. Hutton speaks, Hassett speaks. Shots of crowds listening over speeches. CU posed shot of whole British Team. CU Ashes in glass case.

Keywords

Sport; Buildings and structures; Celebrations and festivals; Cricket; Ceremonies; Cameramen; Newsreels

Locations

London; Oval, The; England

Card file number

59548

Credits:

Camera: Godfrey Kenneth Hanshaw
Commentator: Leslie Mitchell
Camera: Norman Fisher
Camera: Paul Wyand
Camera: Samuelson

Length of story (in feet)

519

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