The Life Of Jack Hobbs Reel 3 (1926)

Reel 3. Surrey v Nottingham. Slow motion footage. Shots of record crowd. Surrey v Middlesex. Team walk out on to cricket pitch. Surrey v Somerset. Newspaper headline: Hobbs’s Day To-Day? [sic]. Hobbs comes out on to pitch. Game in progress. Shot of scoreboard. Sunday - a day off for Jack. He and some friends (or team-mates) sit around in a garden on deck chairs drinking tea served by a maid. Players walk on to pitch. Game in progress. The stroke that enabled Hobbs to equal the record of the late W.G. Grace for number of centuries scored is shown in slow motion. Mr . Fender - his Captain acknowledges his great feat by running on to the pitch. C/U of the bat that broke the record. Lloyd’s insurance document for the bat (insured for £200). It is insured for burglary, theft and fire. Telegrams congratulating him on breaking the record are shown. An unidentified man in a boater comes up and shakes his hand. Hobbs has a game of snooker. Less people turn out for the last day’s