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Cricket is as much a part of the Australian summer as backyard barbecues and sunburn.
The earliest test cricket footage held by the NFSA dates back to 1910. The 'Golden Age of Cricket' is often...
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The Australian Gazette was typical of multi-part silent newsreels, with a mix of serious and lighter news coverage, that kept people at home informed during the First World War. Sheepdogs trials like...
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This is the earliest known surviving film of Test cricket action filmed in Australia. Sourced from an incomplete 35mm Pathé Animated Gazette Australian newsreel from December 1910, this half minute...
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This newsreel footage shows part of the funeral procession of Australian cricketer Victor Trumper. A large group of men march in front of a horse-drawn vehicle carrying the casket of Victor Trumper...
