The swimmer Helene Madison demonstrates her swimming skills.
Mother of two, Mrs. Corson, successfully swims The English Channel.
Parisian baker, George Michel, swims Channel in record time.
Mrs Arthur Hamilton nearly manages to swim the Channel but gives up 3...
13 year old Audrey Clark tells how she saved the life of two boys in a...
A happy Henry Sullivan arrives in Dover after having swum the...
Beatrice Harrison fails to swim the Channel.
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4 year old Helen Page is youngest person to swim a mile. Elland, Yorkshire.
Ken Dodd learning to swim
Sir Cyril Cobb shows a group of Liverpudlian kids...
Different swimming strokes are demonstrated by Miss...
The famous Australian swimmer "Boy" Charlton is seen in training.
The British swimmer Bob Leiver demonstrates his skills in a swimming pool, Winsford,...
Item showing people swimming the English Channel.
British swimming champion is chosen for a part in a film...
Miss Marwell Abrahamson in training...
Cuts...
Mr. Derham of Southend swims...
The swimmer E.H.Temme receives an enthusiastic welcome from family and...
Plenty of grease and good luck for Mrs. Corson, setting off on a channel...
We see distance swimmer Mrs Arthur Hamilton in the sea and on the shore...
American, Clarabelle Barratt, attempts to swim the Channel.
John Burns opens an outdoor swimming pool in Nottingham.
Memorial to Captain Webb is unveiled on occasion of 50th anniversary...
Austrian swimmer Emma Faber shows us her...
Champion swimmer Nancy Riach demonstrates some of her dives and strokes.
Gold Medalist Anita Lonsbrough swims with 4-year-old Susan Holgate,...
Comedian Ken Dodd demonstrates some novel ways to train Channel...
A three mile swimming contest in the Yarra River, Australia....
George Lansbury visits the Lido in Hyde Park and talks about people learning...
Pete Desjardins the Olympic swimmer shows off his diving skills.
British swimmer Linda Ludgrove works as poodle clipper.
Footage of the champion water walker in action on the River Thames London.
Item showing musical star Evelyn Dall swimming, shopping, and in...
Parade for American cross-Channel swimmer Shirley May France.
Pathe visits Cheam School, Headley, at which Prince Charles will...
Coffin arriving at church, Fath's styles (25 ladies) coming down stairs at...
Australian Olympic athletes arrive back in Sydney,...
Queen and Duke attend church at Eton College.
Footage of Prince Paul attending high diving competition.
13-year-old champion swimmer Judy Davis works out and trains for the Perth...
Boys have fun at the Wakehurst Youth Camp in Australia.
London hosts a swimming gala between allied services.
Allied troops...
Diving technique demonstrated by Aileen Riggin - a champion...
Mrs. Corson becomes instant celebrity having been only second woman to swim...
Channel swimmer, Gertrude Ederle, is welcomed back to New York with ticker...
Mrs. Schoemmel, a mother of two, swims 152 miles in 57 hours.
Channel swimmer, Gertrude...
Young swimmer, George Young, receives a huge welcome home.