Synopsis
Swimming and Diving Aces” is a black-and-white documentary short made by Castle Films as part of "The Sport Parade" series. The film takes a look at the sport of swimming and diving in the 1930s and features footage of many of the Olympic stars of the era at some of the iconic pools of the day - the Coral Casino in Santa Barbara, the Venetian Pool in Miami, and the Fort Lauderdale Casino Pool. Diving made its Olympic debut in 1904, however, it wasn’t until 1928 that Olympic organizers finally allowed women to use twists and somersaults in their dives. The United States went on to dominate this Olympic competition from 1920 through the early 1990s. Title page: text overlaid illustration of two female divers in 1940s style bikinis (0:07). footage from bottom of diving platform/ diving tower; montage of divers jumping into water (0:10). Side view of divers simultaneously jumping from various heights of diving platform (0:16). Close-up male diver doing handstand on platform edge about to perform arm stand cut through dive (0:24). Children divers in training, group of five elementary aged children stand on diving board, do drills with coach in pool of El Mirador Hotel, Palm Springs, California (0:31). Slow motion footage as girl does backwards dive (0:57). Montage scenes of father holding daughter on his back as he executes various dives from the Venetian Pool in Miami, Florida designed to resemble rocky cliff in tropical jungle (1:09). Spectators sit and observe women’s…
Uploader's description on archive.org
Details
- Running time
- 9 minutes
- Collection
- Ephemeral Films
Subjects on the Internet Archive
- Swimming And Diving Aces
- 1940
- Olympic Diving
- Synchronized Swimming
- Stock Footage
- Periscope FIlm