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 1920s 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