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Caerleon Cricket Club
Caerleon Cricket Club’s players enjoy the sport in the seasonal sunshine.
Home movie 1937 4 mins Silent
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Overview
It’s summer and Caerleon Cricket Club players are in action, the film-maker recording their athleticism with slow motion shots. Ernest Charles Jordan II, son of Newport builder Ernest Charles Jordan, who owned the town’s White Rose Laundry, uses 16mm colour film, recently available from Kodak. The names ‘Reg and Walter Young, Pontnewydd’, are inscribed on the original can.
Genres
Home movie
Released
1937
Country
Wales
Location
Caerleon/Caerllion
Language
English
Subjects
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