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Essentially British?: Cricket (1951)
 
Focus Questions

These questions can be used to focus students' thinking while watching the film and/or to develop their understanding of film language.

CHARACTERS AND PEOPLE

  • Can we talk about the narrators as 'characters' in these clips?

NARRATIVE

  • What is the role of the Lord's test match of 1948 in the narrative of both clips?

SYMBOLISM/IMAGERY

  • The film uses some of the pictures hanging in Lord's pavilion - why?
  • What kinds of images are used throughout the film to substantiate the narrator's claim that cricket is part of the very substance of an Englishman's education?

SETTING

  • Why does the film open at Lord's Cricket Ground?
  • In clip two, what different settings are we taken to and why?