Taking a Chance!
Series
- Series Name
- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 5 / 5
- Summary
- NoS Summary - A graceful diving exhibitions by four ladies on Saddle Rock, Torquay.
Pathe Intertitles - "Just off Torquay stands Saddle Rock and here went five ladies in search of diving thrills. (Miss Belle White (British Champion) and Misses Gladys Luscombe, Eileen Sullivan, L. Zimmerman and W. V. Smith)." "Saddle Rock rears its head 52 feet above high water and would make even Adam think twice before taking the plunge." "A sea silhouette." "No wonder they call it the graceful art." "The higher (the dive) The fewer (survive)". "And what’s this?" - Researcher Comments
- A short handwritten shot list is present in the Pathe boxfile.
- Keywords
- Water sports
- Written sources
- Kinematograph Weekly 9 September 1926 p54.
J. Hammerton ‘For Ladies Only?' (Hastings, 2001) p128.
Pathe Eve 246-280 Boxfile Issue sheet
National Film Archive Catalogue
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- British Pathe Ltd.
- Length of story (in feet)
- 220
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How to cite this record
'Taking a Chance!', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 274, 2 Sep 1926. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/331492 (Accessed 31 Jan 2025)