Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Rugby League Test Match
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- British Movietone News
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Story
- Section Title
- Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Kiwis V Great Britain - Rugby (Mute). DESCRIPTION: The first Rugby League Test between Great Britain and New Zealand as held at Headingley. SHOTLIST: KS Crowd shot. Mr Jordan (New Zealand High Commissioner) walks onto field, meets teams and presents caps to England team. MS line up and kick off. Various shots of play. Kiwis in black shirts. GV Clark scoring penalty for Kiwis. Ward converts. GV of play, Great Britain attacking. Forrest goes over and scores again for Kiwis. Clark fails to convert. Various shots of play and Johnson runs over grabs ball and scores for Great Britain. Crowds swarm onto pitch after game.
- Local distribution only
- Leeds only, instead of first two items.
- Keywords
- Sport; Rugby football
- Locations
- Leeds; Headingley
- Card file number
- 49266
- Credits:
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- Camera
- James Humphries
- Commentator
- Lionel James Gamlin
- Camera
- Martin Gray
- Length of story (in feet)
- 167
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How to cite this record
'Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Rugby League Test Match', British Movietone News Issue No. 957A, 9 Oct 1947. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/14707 (Accessed 08 Feb 2025)