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Peppered by colourful commentary this 1961 newsreel shows highlights of the first test between the French tourists and the All Blacks. Fans queue outside Eden Park, playing cards or reading Lady Chatterley's Lover. Don "the mighty boot" Clarke kicks off and the ABs score right away, but Pierre "Monsieur Drop" Albaladejo pots two field goals for a French lead. The All Blacks fight back for a 13 - 6 win to delight 60,000 locals. An intercept try escapes the camera: before live broadcast, and more resources, action was sometimes missed while changing film.
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That's Sandra Coney's dad, Tom Pearce (Sandra Coney's dad) accompanying the Governor-General onto the field, at 0.51.
Brilliant production; thanks so much for putting it up. Could you please post up some more France-All Black matches---especially the third test from 1968, also at Eden Park?
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Television, 1978 (Full Length Episode)
Colin Meads is parodied in this satire show
Short Film, 1966 (Full Length)
An NFU highlights reel of a 1966 test
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glenn
Posted at 11.52PM - 30.09.2011
thanks very much , this was a rare treat indeed