News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Johannesburg Test

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
500A
Date Released
5 Jan 1939
Date submitted
5 Jan 1939
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Major Attlee on 1939’s Dilemma
  2. 2News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Diplomatic Occasion in the Elysee
  3. 3News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: M Daladier in Corsica
  4. 4News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Senegalese Troops for Djibouti
  5. 5News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Sir Kingsley Wood Goes to Monte
  6. 6News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Spring Comes Early in Cannes
  7. 7News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Exhibition Caters for Schoolboy Tastes
  8. 8News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: New Tailoring for Italian Firemen
  9. 9News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Earthquake Sequel
  10. 10News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Indian Pageant
  11. 11News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Johannesburg Test
  12. 12News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Our Tip for 1939 Tennis Honours
  13. *News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Rangers Beat Celtic in New Year’s Match

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue
11 / 12
Section Title
News & Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: MCC V South Africa (First Test). DESCRIPTION: The first Test. SHOTLIST: The English cricketers arrive by rickshaw at the Wanderers’ Ground. Large crowds fill the ground which is under the shadow of a sky-scraper. The South African team is led out by Melville and behind come the opening pair Edrich and Gibb. Among those specially photographed are Edrich, Gibb, Paynter, Ames, Hammond and Davies (South African bowler). The match is watched by Hutton.
Keywords
Sport; Buildings and structures; Cricket
Card file number
35199
Credits:
Commentator
Alan Howland
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
63
Story extras:
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