National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
The only known colour footage of The Don was filmed at the AF Kippax and WA Oldfield testimonial match in Sydney, on 26 February 1949.
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) has released the only known colour footage of Sir Donald Bradman playing cricket, shot at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Saturday 26 February 1949.
The vision, available on the NFSA website , shows Bradman striding onto the SCB for his penultimate first-class innings, during the AF Kippax and WA Oldfield testimonial match. Although the footage is silent it captures the atmosphere at the ground and the 41,000 people in attendance.
The 16mm colour footage is assumed to have been shot by George Hobbs, who had worked as a cameraperson for the Department of Information during the Second World War and later for ABC TV.
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