Swimming Strokes and How They Evolved.
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- Eve And Everybody’s Film Review
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- 6 / 6
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- NoS Summary - Kathleen Howcroft demonstrating swimming strokes.
Pathe Intertitles - "(Arranged by W. J. Howcroft, British Olympic Team Coach 1924, and demonstrated by Miss Kathleen Huxley, Walsall.)"
""In all probability the original Eve watched a dog" said Mr. Howcroft, "and tried to paddle likewise.""
""Ages passed and the dog paddle gradually evolved into a breast stroke -"."
""About fifty years ago, searching for speed, the swimmer lay on one side and brought one arm through the air and thus came the side stroke - (This eliminated some underwater resistance)"."
""Fifteen years later, the trudgeon superseded the side stroke. In the trudgeon, both arms recover through the air and lessen resistance still further -"."
""Further progress occurred ten years later, when the "crawl" stroke was discovered. The legs are kept close together with an up and down "thrash", thus again lessening resistance to forward movement -"."
""The latest development - the eight-beat crawl, i.e., to one arm-cycle we have 8 beats of the legs"."
"In the same way the double-arm backstroke has developed -"."
""And today", said Mr, Howcroft", the back crawl is in being. Here the legs work up and down and do not impede, while the arms are situated alternately."" - Keywords
- Swimming
- Written sources
- Kinematograph Weekly 30 September 1926 p59.
J. Hammerton ‘For Ladies Only?' (Hastings, 2001) p128.
Pathe Eve 246-280 Boxfile Issue sheet
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'Swimming Strokes and How They Evolved.', Eve And Everybody’s Film Review Issue No. 277, 23 Sep 1926. https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/newsonscreen/search/index.php/story/331510 (Accessed 01 Feb 2025)