Eve Takes Up Cricket 1922

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"A slow motion study of London University Girls at play". Intertitle reads: "One by one the games which were once Adam's very own are being appropriated by Eve". A group of girls are sitting and watching a cricket match. A girl bowls. We see in slow motion her delivery. We then see the bats women play...

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Cataloguer:
Jenny
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Mute
Media URN:
48093
Sort Number:
EP 057
Time in/Out:
01:46:03:00 / 01:48:11:00
Canister:
EP 057
Film ID:
3455.18
Issue Date:
15/06/1922

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