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DetailsOriginal Format: Super 8 Colour: Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 3 mins 20 secs
Subject: Sport
Summary A well shot amateur film by a gentleman from Cawthorne, near Barnsley, that captures life around the village and surrounding area.
Description A well shot amateur film by a gentleman from Cawthorne, near Barnsley, that captures life around the village and surrounding area.
The film opens with a static shot of a cricket field. The umpires are inspecting the wickets before the cricket match. The match takes place during the course of the afternoon and is captured in a variety of long shots and pans which often follow the line of the ball. Additionally, the film captures the large group of spectators which have turned out for the day's event.
Context
The difficulties of the non-professional filming a cricket match are evident in this film, as the ball gets wacked hither and thither.
A glimpse of village cricket in the year that the other Yorkshireman, Geoffrey Boycott, was way ahead in the batting averages. Cawthorne Cricket Club, of the Huddersfield Central League, had a successful year in 1971, winning both the Allsop Cup and the League title. Here they can be seen, filmed by local amateur filmmaker Allan Broadhead, in action...
The difficulties of the non-professional filming a cricket match are evident in this film, as the ball gets wacked hither and thither.
A glimpse of village cricket in the year that the other Yorkshireman, Geoffrey Boycott, was way ahead in the batting averages. Cawthorne Cricket Club, of the Huddersfield Central League, had a successful year in 1971, winning both the Allsop Cup and the League title. Here they can be seen, filmed by local amateur filmmaker Allan Broadhead, in action possibly against either nearby Shelley or Cumberworth.
Allan Broadhead started filming local events in the 1960s, and is still doing so, with very many recent films online. Cawthorne Cricket Club are still playing at the same ground, Cannon Hall Park, which was saved from disappearing in the early 1950s by the local the Miners’ Welfare, when the owner, the Spencer-Stanhope family, sold it off, having a new wicket laid and constructing a pavilion. It has recently undergone regeneration thanks largely to the efforts of Cawthorne singer-songwriter Kate Rusby (a distant relative of Allan Broadhead) whose family have a close association with the Club and who founded the nearby Underneath the Stars Festival which has raised funds for the Club.
This film is available to be licensed for non-commercial creative reuse. For more information please contact yfa@yorksj.ac.uk
