https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/409f881b-b77c-4475-8d81-298b029a416c Want to support this channel and help us preserve old films? Visit https://www.patreon.com/PeriscopeFilm Visit our website www.PeriscopeFilm.com This silent black and white 1920’s 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 swimming group in modest women’s bathing gear (2:14). The surface of the water ripples. A man breaststrokes toward the camera and back again at increasing speed. A backstroke and a sidestroke are also demonstrated (2:25). A wider and higher angle angle view of the kicking swimmer demonstrating his form (3:18). Backflipping off a 2nd story high dive board and into a 6ft deep indoor pool with a splash. Again with a front flip, a swan dive, and a backwards dive (3:58). Iris out from a detailed toy model of a biplane (4:34). A young boy holds his creation while others bustle behind him. A scout leader watches (4:47). A young man in uniform holds an unusual model airplane fitted with an extended wire nose, examining it (4:53). A row of boy scouts in white shirts and caps stand in a row, displaying their homemade airplanes in a field (5:07). A number of failed model airplane competition launches and a more successful throw. One scout registers his frustration (5:19). A wider angle shows two planes lifting skyward (5:33). Boy Scouts in full uniform assemble for a group photo. Rows of scouts stand behind a flag raised for Troop 69. Iris out (5:58). A man in a straw pins an award to the uniform of a young scout. The scout’s troop marches away in file (6:15). Iris in and out on the United States flag (6:38). A scout leader blows a bugle, first in a wide shot, then in closeup, with a flag held by a scout flying behind him. Dissolve to the scout alone with the flag (6:52). Eight boys stand at a starting line, then quickly burst into action, assembling and scaling a ladder. A boy waves semaphore flags from atop the ladder then quickly climbs down again (7:11). Young scouts pet a dog. Older scouts build a wagon (7:48). Setting up a campsite, pacing out the dimensions (8:07). A large conflagration of scouts marches through choreographed drill formations in an open field (8:17). Marking time (8:44). Log cabin barracks housing. A scout pantomimes running outdoors and hearing something, calling for another to follow (8:47). Undercranked fast-motion footage: Scouts scramble over a climbing wall supported by elders in an agility training exercise (8:53). We encourage viewers to add comments and, especially, to provide additional information about our videos by adding a comment! See something interesting? Tell people what it is and what they can see by writing something for example: "01:00:12:00 -- President Roosevelt is seen meeting with Winston Churchill at the Quebec Conference." This film is part of the Periscope Film LLC archive, one of the largest historic military, transportation, and aviation stock footage collections in the USA. Entirely film backed, this material is available for licensing in 24p HD, 2k and 4k. For more information visit http://www.PeriscopeFilm.com Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCStjg5J54A Mirrored from Periscope Film (https://www.youtube.com/@PeriscopeFilm) Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:28:41 GMT https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html PeerTube - https://peertube.dngr.us https://peertube.dngr.us/lazy-static/avatars/41a6fee9-7f57-42d0-a5fc-5db4f1af2e31.png https://peertube.dngr.us/videos/watch/409f881b-b77c-4475-8d81-298b029a416c All rights reserved, unless otherwise specified in the terms specified at https://peertube.dngr.us/about and potential licenses granted by each content's rightholder.