News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Bradman’s Centuries

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
506A
Date Released
16 Feb 1939
Date submitted
10 Feb 1939
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: The Catholic World Mourns the Pope
  2. 2News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Queen Mary at Luton
  3. 3News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: King Gustav at Cannes
  4. 4News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: And King Christian
  5. 5News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: At Nice - King Carnival
  6. 6News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: War News from the Frontier
  7. 7News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Anderson Shelters in Bombing Tests
  8. 8News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Planes from USA - The Lockheed
  9. 9News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Megan Taylor Keeps World Title
  10. 10News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Bradman’s Centuries
  11. 11News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Riding the Breakers in Slow Motion
  12. *News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: Sir Kingsley Wood in Edinburgh
  13. *News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland: The Princess Royal in Sheffield

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue
10 / 11
Section Title
News and Sports Pageant of Movietone - Reported by Leslie Mitchell and Alan Howland
Summary
MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Melbourne Festival Cricket Match. DESCRIPTION: Don Bradman plays in Centenary match of the Melbourne Cricket Club. SHOTLIST: Don Bradman leads out his team among which are McCabe, Hassett, McCormick, Fleetwood-Smith, O’Reilly and Badcock. Barnes opens for the Rest and slow motion shows his batting style. O’Reilly gets him LBW after he has made 63. Sievers goes the same way. Bradman and Brown come out to open for the Australian team. Nagel bowls and Bradman hits out. Christ bowls to McCabe and Bradman is nearly run out. Bradman gives a chance but is missed.
Keywords
Sport; Newsreels
Footage sources
Australia
Card file number
35533
Credits:
Commentator
Alan Howland
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
41
Story extras:
Film clip

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