ACTUALITY. W.G. Grace and Prince Ranjitsinhji walk past the camera on the
occasion of the First Test between England and Australia, at Trent Bridge,
June 1-3, 1899.



Note: This was W.G. Grace's twenty-second and final Test appearance for
England. The film was probably taken on the first day of the Test - the
production company is not known, but Barry Anthony suggests the Sheffield
photographer Jasper Refern. The film was originally converted into a
filoscope `flickbook', and re-photographed onto 35mm film by the NFTVA. The
resultant `dot matrix' image is not that of conventional film. For details
of the filoscope, see John Barnes, `The Beginnings of the Cinema in England',
pp. 107-8 passim.