Cricket Centenary Stamps presented by the Post Office

Reference

FILM/303

Date:

1973

Level of description

item

Extent

1 reel: 7 minutes 58 seconds

Part of

MCC Film Collection (FILM)

Scope and Content

1 film, Cricket Centenary Stamps presented by the Post Office. The film shows Ted Riveley, designer and lecturer, arriving at Lord's via the Grace Gates and walking through the Pavilion Concourse to meet with Stephen Green, MCC Curator, at the MCC Library to perform research on county cricket for a set of stamps to be produced by the Post Office, commemorating the centenary of the County Championship. Riveley then visits the MCC Museum to look at the items on display. The film includes footage of W G Grace, Jack Hobbs, Len Hutton, Jim Laker and Denis Compton playing cricket, and images of the stamps - adaptations of illustrations by Harry Furniss of W G Grace.

The film is in colour and includes audio. There are two versions of the film - one in full colour and one with discolouration. The conversion was provided by Beaulieu Film and Video.

Associations

Ted Riveley
Stephen Edgar Alexander Green
William Gilbert Grace
Sir John Berry Hobbs
Sir Leonard Hutton
James Charles Laker
Denis Charles Scott Compton
Harry Furniss
Post Office

Subject

stamps, Marylebone Cricket Club Library, County Championship, research

Institution name

Marylebone Cricket Club

Conditions governing access

Closed

Language

English

Size

1 reel: 7 minutes 58 seconds

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