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1. SEEDS FROM CENTRAL: An agricultural item on seed production showing a factory, industrial machinery, women bagging seed, seed being inspected by government officials, transportation and sale. Set in Cromwell, Central Otago.
2. MCC vs NZ LAST TEST: The English cricket team play New Zealand at Eden Park Auckland. New Zealand are all out for 26! See below.
3. ROXBURGH HYDRO: A British immigrant family arrive in New Zealand to work on the Roxburgh Hydro Power Project. Shows the dam being built and the hydro settlement - houses and school.
Further detail on Item 2:
(note: the references here and in the commentary to MCC rather than England is incorrect. The touring team selected by the MCC - Marylebone Cricket Club - became ‘England’ for Test matches).
England captain Len Hutton, in civilian clothes, signs autographs. Commentary says that, moving on to NZ from a successful tour of Australia, “they came, they saw, they conquered.”
Packed crowd at Eden Park, Auckland - commentary says 18,000 .
Hutton leads England onto the field. Wicket-keeper Godfrey Evans acknowledges the camera, as does Tom Graveney. Most other team members also visible.
Close shot, also taken from on the field, of the New Zealand openers walking out: Bert Sutcliffe, Gordon Leggat.
Long shot of play. “NZ are 2 down for 13 when John Reid joins Sutcliffe to show the cream of New Zealand batting”.
Tyson to Sutcliffe, played out on the offside [commentary out of sync here - says Reid, not Sutcliffe]
Press men at typewriters
Tyson to Reid, forward stroke
Tyson to Reid, ducks under bumper
A good complete record of Tyson in action: walking back to his mark, turning, running up, and bowling. Reid plays him to the legside for three. Commentary says his speed is said to be 87 mph [probably in fact higher - Bradman called him the fastest bowler he’d ever seen].
Crowd
Tyson to Sutcliffe, pushed into the offside for one
LS of ground, background of trees
Statham to Reid, defensive shot
Two men in crowd
Statham to Sutcliffe, forces off back foot, but no run
Scoreboard shows 73 for 2, Sutcliffe 46, Reid 16 - England team listed on the board in full
Tyson to Sutcliffe, ducks under bumper
Tyson to Sutcliffe again, closer shot, turns it to legside, runs...
Press men again, at typewriters
Sutcliffe walking out, caught; commentary says last over before lunch, after stand of 63 in 72 minutes.
After lunch, Reid walks out with his captain, Rabone
Side view of Wardle bowling
Back stroke, by Rabone (?). Commentary gives close of play score: 8 wickets for 199.
Day 2: taking covers off the ground after delay for rain - Rabone is there in the middle.
Press men
England openers walk out: Reg Simpson and Tom Graveney
LS of ground
Simpson pushes a quick single (commentary tells us Graveney has by now been caught at slip)
Crowd shot
Peter May plays off his legs, runs one, turns for two....
Transition via zip-pan to Hutton leading out England again [in what will turn out to be his last test], with a lead of only 46. Players visible behind him include a substitute fielder, Vic Wilson. Commentary tells us that “They slaughter the New Zealand lambs”
Openers Sutcliffe and Leggat walk out again to start the innings [this shot may in fact come from the first innings, not the second]
“Here are the killers in slow motion”: menacing music accompanies side-on shots of the bowlers in action: Statham, then Tyson, then Wardle.
“Appleyard” is the fourth bowler named. However, the shot is not of him, but of Tyson again; not from side-on, but from the same angle used to cover the first day’s play - he bowls to Sutcliffe. A catch is taken by Bailey, and Sutcliffe is seen walking out in the foreground - a repeat, in fact, of the shot that recorded his first innings dismissal [c Bailey b Statham 49]
The rest of the NZ collapse is represented by a montage: several crude close-ups of stumps being knocked down, interspersed with shots of batsmen walking out [probably, again, taken from the first innings]. Note: there is thus no genuine coverage of this famous innings of 26 all out. It seems unlikely that cameras were even at the ground that day
LS of the ground: “as the debacle developed, silence fell on Eden Park and over the whole of New Zealand”. END.