Images that indicate Test cricket was played with great flair in its formative decades.
"It's interesting to see how high the hands and bat are at the top of the back lift, a great position to strike the ball from," said Hick, who is currently in the UK with the Australia team for the upcoming ICC Champions Trophy.
"These days, I'd say the hands are a bit tighter and everything a little more compact.
"I'd like to see a defensive shot or two, and if their hands were in that same position, but maybe they didn't play many in those days."
Wray said while moving pictures shown by the Kinora machine could only be viewed by one person at a time, they became a popular item in affluent households around the turn of the 20th century and featured sporting celebrities, vaudeville acts and news reels of royals to widen their appeal.
"Ranji and Fry were quite the couple at that time in the cricketing world, and if you were wanting to get an audience in they were certainly two characters that would do that for you," said Wray, who added that the original Kinora reel was purchased from a collector in the UK by cricket historian Glenn Gibson.
"It would have been a traditional camera, on a clunky tripod and more than likely hand-cranked to get through the film.
"And it would have been a training session, you couldn't get out there during a match because you have to be quite close – there was no zoom or telephoto lenses back then.
"We have footage of Ranjitsinhji batting in Sydney in 1897, which is pretty exciting, and we've also got quite a lot of pre-1914 cricket footage featuring the likes of (former Australia batsmen) Clem Hill and Victor Trumper.