# " THE DEEP END " 1930s FEMALE SWIMMING & DIVING STARS HELEN CRLENKOVICH CALIFORNIA 43764a

This film presents a series of female American champion diving and swimming stars in the late 1930’s including Helen Crlenkovich, Marian and Virginia Hopkins, Iris Cummings and Marjorie Gestring. It features areas such as the Vista del Arroyo pool in Pasadena, the Los Angeles Olympic pool, the Santa Barbara Biltmore pool and the Sunset Tower Hotel Pool in Beverly Hills. It is presented by Pictorial Films (:07) and produced by Frederic Ullman Jr. (:29). It opens with a graceful slow-motion dive by Helen Crlenkovich. She was one of the most successful athletes in the world on the three-meter spring board and the ten-meter platform. Here she was the recent runner up in the springboard diving championship and is seen practicing for the National Meeting at the Pasadena’s Vista del Arroyo pool (:59). In national as well as Olympic competitions there are five compulsory dives as well as five elective dives which can be of varying difficulty (1:05). Helen is seen conducting the half twist dive (1:28). At the age of 17, she was the only American girl whom had competed in this competition (1:42). She gracefully completes a full twisting one and a half dive (2:01) as well as a single layout somersault dive (2:20). The back dive (2:38) is compulsory in all diving competitions. The back one and a half somersault she then does is generally only conducted by top divers (2:56) and her final dive is the front jack knife (3:09). Iris Cummings follows (3:24) who was an American aviator and…

- Kind: Film
- By: PeriscopeFilm
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