Women’s Sports Aka Women Sports Issue Title Is Children First And Last (1936)

Women’s sports. Part of issue - CHILDREN FIRST AND LAST. Liverpool Physical Training School, Merseyside. Various shots of group of women doing synchronised swimming and co-ordinated high diving in an outdoor pool. Various shots of women in gym shorts tumbling and leap frogging over a massive rubber ball. A matronly looking instructor supervises. The girls lie on their backs in a circle and bounce the ball up in the air with their feet. Various shots of women practising their cricket techniques - we see them batting and bowling. Unusual to see women of this era playing a ’man’s“ sport! FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932),