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Grace Descends 1935
Description
Full titles read: "GRACE DESCENDS"
Slow motion shots of Dorothy Pointon-Hill the Olympic diving champion leaps from a diving board, and performs a swallow dive. She then performs somersault, back dive and finally another somersault.
Data
- Cataloguer:
- Howard
- Stock:
- Black & White
- Sound:
- Sound
- Media URN:
- 39026
- Sort Number:
- PT 283
- Time in/Out:
- 01:23:39:00 / 01:25:05:00
- Canister:
- PT 283
- Film ID:
- 1120.11
- Issue Date:
- 26/08/1935
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