Metadata
WORK ID: YFA 3500 (Master Record)
| Title | Year | Date |
| BRADFORD CITY V NEWCASTLE UNITED | 1911 | 1911-04-26 |
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Details
Original Format: 35mm Colour: Black & White / Colour Sound: Silent Duration: 2 mins Credits: Movietone Subject: Sport Early Cinema |
| Summary This newsreel covers the FA Cup final replay match between Bradford City and Newcastle United. After a goalless draw at Crystal Palace on 22nd April, 1911, the replay of the 40th FA Cup final took place in Manchester at Old Trafford on 26th April 1911. Bradford won 1-0, and the winning goal scored by Jimmy Speirs. |
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Description
This newsreel covers the FA Cup final replay match between Bradford City and Newcastle United. After a goalless draw at Crystal Palace on 22nd April, 1911, the replay of the 40th FA Cup final took place in Manchester at Old Trafford on 26th April 1911. Bradford won 1-0, and the winning goal scored by Jimmy Speirs.
Title - Manchester. The replayed FA Cup Final. Bradford City v Newcastle United.
Bradford City is first to emerge out of the tunnel at Old Trafford while a large crowd looks on....
This newsreel covers the FA Cup final replay match between Bradford City and Newcastle United. After a goalless draw at Crystal Palace on 22nd April, 1911, the replay of the 40th FA Cup final took place in Manchester at Old Trafford on 26th April 1911. Bradford won 1-0, and the winning goal scored by Jimmy Speirs.
Title - Manchester. The replayed FA Cup Final. Bradford City v Newcastle United.
Bradford City is first to emerge out of the tunnel at Old Trafford while a large crowd looks on. They are followed by the Newcastle team whose members are dressed in striped shirts. The game is filmed from low down on the touchline showing tall chimneys and a building with a central tower in the background.
Title - Bradford Scores
It isn't clear whether the goal can be seen being scored as the ball is lost in the crowd, but the players turn away in celebration. There is another attack on the Newcastle goal, and the crowd behind sway in the excitement. At the end of the game, the players make their way up a ramp in the stand to collect the cup. Another cameraman can be seen filming just off to the right.
Title - Result. Bradford City 1. Newcastle United 0.
Context
This film is part of the Fisher Collection of films of mainly nitrate films. These films were sold to the Bundesfilmarchiv, around 1975, and were later acquired by the Imperial War Museum. Two other films from this Collection that the YFA have, and which are also on YFA Online, are Bradford under Snow (1910s), made by HP Limited, and The West Riding of Yorkshire, made some time around the First World War. It is not known who made this film. It is possibly a newsreel, there were several...
This film is part of the Fisher Collection of films of mainly nitrate films. These films were sold to the Bundesfilmarchiv, around 1975, and were later acquired by the Imperial War Museum. Two other films from this Collection that the YFA have, and which are also on YFA Online, are Bradford under Snow (1910s), made by HP Limited, and The West Riding of Yorkshire, made some time around the First World War. It is not known who made this film. It is possibly a newsreel, there were several active at this time in Britain: the British subsidiary of the French company Pathé Frères, Warwick Bioscope Chronicle and Gaumont Graphic, all appearing in 1910, and Topical Budget beginning in 1911. However, there is no evidence that any of these made this film. The BFI have a copy of a film produced by Gaumont Graphic of the first match at Crystal Palace, which is different from the one held by YFA. Their catalogue also has an entry for a film of the replay lasting 7 ½ minutes, but has no other details.
Newsreels would often coincide with actuality films – as this film does – although newsreels would usually be of a wider interest than to those who happen to be in them or live in the area, as was usually the case in actuality films. Charles Pathé began making regular newsreels in 1907, with a weekly newsreel of unrelated stories from 1910, having different versions in France, Britain and the US. These really took off during World War One, and expanded thereafter, with others like Movietone also getting in on the act – the popular The March of Time began in 1935. The Pathé newsreels continued showing in cinemas right up to 1956 when TV finally took over. For more information on the cup final, and on the F A cup, see the Context for 1911 Cup Final Crystal Palace. References Rachael Low, The History of the British Film: 1906-1914, George Allen and Unwin, London, 1949. Roger Smither, and Wolfgang Klaue (editors), Newsreels in Film Archives, Flick Books, Trowbridge, Wilts., 1996. A History of British Newsreels |
