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Cinetopicalities In Brief No. 22 1938
Description
Titles read: "CINETOPICALITIES IN BRIEF".
Various locations of events.
Several shots show 14-year-old Guy Lowings putting on a diving helmet he made from a 5 gallon oil drum, supplied with air from a hand pump and a length of garden hose. He gets into an open air swimming pool and...
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Sarah
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 40508
- Sort Number:
- PT 440
- Time in/Out:
- 01:54:20:00 / 01:57:27:00
- Canister:
- PT 440
- Film ID:
- 1174.27
- Issue Date:
- 29/08/1938
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"air from a hand pump" - the pumping is being done by Guy's brother, Keith Lowings.
"(Location of events unknown.)" - Guy Lowings lived in Broadstairs, so the location is likely, though not certain, to be the Broadstairs Lido.
Here's a newspaper story of the era about Guy and his diving outfit......
http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2209&dat=19381112&id=ghpAAA
AAIBAJ&sjid=qKQMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4
195,3821435
"At the Cliftonville Lido (Bristol?)" - no, the Cliftonville Lido is in Margate, Kent.