Cricket Bats (1962)

This is a duplicate copy of item - check for best quality. Bungay, Suffolk. Various shots of two men tending to saplings and seedlings. Man looks at the trunk of a willow tree to see if it is ready to be felled in order to provide wood for cricket bats. A “W“ is cut into the trunk of a tree selected for felling. A chain-saw is used to fell the tree. The trunk is measured and cut. C/Us of man cutting a piece of trunk into three. The splitting of the wood is always done by hand - never by machine. Interior of a workshop. Craftsmen are seen working on cricket bats. All the processes involved in making the bats are shown. Film ends with short shot of a game of cricket in progress on a village green. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also repres