1920s BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ACTIVITIES, MODEL PLANE CONTEST, LAKE & POOL SWIMMING XD31041

Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit Visit our website This silent black and white 1920’s footage depicts bathers demonstrating a variety of swimming and diving styles, as well as an early Boy Scouts of America outdoor jamboree (TRT 9:17). Three children are tossed into a swimming pool as the film begins (0:06). A diver does a handstand off a high dive platform on a lakefront dock. Evidence of print decay due to moisture (0:15). Men in white canoes mock battle with oars (0:27). A diver does a backflip and jumps off a 2nd story balcony into a swimming pool below (0:40). A lineup of girls dives off the edge of a swimming pool in clumsy unison. They swim back and climb out of the pool, wearing bathing caps, then dive back in and repeat (0:45). The kicking swimmers splash in the pool water (1:18). Swimming laps and relay racing (1:24). Fully grown divers take turns entering the water (1:59). A medium portrait view of the s