Item title reads - Irish Cricket Season Opens. Mr R. W. Powers XI v Mr. H. Rollins XI in Trinity College Senior Trials. Dublin.
Various shots of a match in L/S. We see people laid on a grass bank watching them. L/S of the match again. We see the players walking off the pitch.
Intertitle - 'Warwick Armstrong Captain "the genial giant" and Australia's greatest cricketer.' M/S of Warwick batting. C/U as he looks at the camera.
Intertitle - 'H.S. Collins Vice Captain'. C/U of Collins looking at camera.
Intertitle - 'A. Mailey - "the wrist work wizard". M/S of Arthur Mailey looking at a cricket ball and throwing it in the air, he speaks to someone off camera.
Intertitle - 'J.M. Gregory batsman bowler and wonder in the slips'. M/S of Jack Gregory standing before the camera and smiling.
Intertitle - H. Carter the veteran keeper and hero of innumerable test matches.' He crouches down behind the stumps, we also see him standing up in C/U.
WW2 accounted for over 60m deaths and innumerable lives shattered. Pathé cameras took to land, sea and air to record the bloodshed. Here are the 10 bloodiest battles that were caught on film.
The great politician and orator Winston Churchill left behind a sea of humourous quips and discerning quotes. We remember some of his finest epigrams and witty ripostes.
The death penalty has been carried out in almost all societies and although these images from WWI and WWII are unsettling, they still provide a raw account of events from a certain time.
The images taken from inside Buchenwald Concentration Camp after its Liberation show us what it was like; it tells us what happened and forces us to remember.
10 telling images selected from British Pathé's extensive WWI footage. 'The war to end all wars' was a war without parallel: over 70 million military personnel were involved and over 17 million people died.
British Pathé filmed the 20th Century's biggest names, some of them before they even became famous. Click through and guess who these soon-to-be celebrities were when first captured by our cameras.
Private UFOs, flying bicycles, motorised wheels - Pathe's archive is awash with fabulous films of canny and creative transport inventions.Take a look at some of the more unusual but ingenious ideas that people have had to beat the traffic.
Comments (0)
We always welcome comments and more information about our films.
All posts are reactively checked. Libellous and abusive comments are forbidden.