Welcome to the English Cricket Team

Clip 1: Welcome to the English cricket team

2 min 18 sec

Taken from the newsreel Welcome to the English Cricket Team (1934)

Original title classification not rated – this clip chosen to be PG

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Curator’s clip description

In this cinema newsreel Australian Cricket Captain, Bill Woodfull, welcomes the English cricket team to Australia for the Ashes in 1934.

Curator’s notes

It was filmed using one camera, outside in natural light and would have been screened at cinemas.

Elizabeth Taggart-Speers, curator

australian screen