Camera Interviews Miss Aileen Riggin (1928)
No title. First intertitle reads: Permit us Miss Riggin M, S of woman in baggy black swimsuit standing on a diving board, her back to the swimming pool. Top shot of Aileen Riggin standing on the board. She dives off backwards. Miss Riggin says this dive is a swan dive, but her friend Mr Howercroft, the wellknown Coach and Writer, calls it A swallow so take your We see the dive, first at normal speed then in slow motion. Aileen demonstrates what she calls a front jackknife and what her coach calls a pike dive. A back dive is then shown and then a full twist (in which Miss Riggin excels). Various shots of Miss Riggin s jackknife. Difficult and dangerous to execute the halfgainer. (Slowmotion reveals how close a diver s head is to the From a higher board we see Miss Riggin s spectacular 1 1, 2 front somersault a real poem of Was originally an item in Eve s Film Review issue number 382. FILM A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OU
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