Jack Hobb's Retirement AKA Jack Hobbs Retirement 1935

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Jack Hobbs retires.

M/S of cricketer Sir Jack Hobbs (John Berry Hobbs) enclosed in picture frame. Slow motion M/S as he bats. L/S of memorial gates at entrance to Oval erected in his honour, M/S as camera pans across them.

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
10848
Sort Number:
35/017
Time in/Out:
01:02:49:00 / 01:03:15:00
Canister:
35/17
Film ID:
819.03
Issue Date:
28/02/1935

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