Our Olympic Diving Team 1920

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Item title reads - Human "swallows". Britain's entries for Olympic Diving Championship - tried out. Hampstead, London.

L/S of a diving platform outside, a girl dives off a very high board into the river, two more follow her. Various shots of the diving. M/S as four girls dive off the top board...

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Cataloguer:
Emma
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Silent
Media URN:
21898
Sort Number:
G 0690
Time in/Out:
01:15:00:00 / 01:15:38:00
Canister:
G 690
Film ID:
218.08
Issue Date:
02/08/1920

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