Rare 1901 cricket footage brought back to life by NFSA

The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) has built a custom-made device in order to digitise and publish this rare ‘Kinora’ reel featuring 1901 footage of legendary cricketers K.S. Ranjitsinhji and C.B.Fry.
NFSA experts then photographed all 465 frames in the reel to create a 19-second film, showing the famous cricketers (who played for Sussex and England in the early 1900s) in action for the first time in more than 100 years. The footage was taken in Hove, England, and the reel was recently donated to the NFSA by cricket historian Glenn Gibson.
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[@souravbhadra12]

awesome . very rare experience...

[@big_dave_7178]

Amazing reconstruction. I wish they'd slow more footage from this time to it's correct speed.

[@alistairnewton5403]

Ranji looks in good touch here.

[@mattyo30]

amazing

[@Silencebound]

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