Camera Interviews -: Miss Aileen Riggin

Series

Series Name

Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

382

Date Released

27 Sep 1928

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1(Untitled record)
2. 2(Untitled record)
3. 3(Untitled record)
4. 4Camera Interviews -: Miss Aileen Riggin
5. 5Sammy and Sausage cartoon

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 5

Section Title

Camera Interviews -

Summary

NoS Summary - Miss Aileen Riggin, America’s Diving Star in slow motion.
British Pathe synopsis: First intertitle reads: "Permit us - Miss Riggin - " M/S of woman in baggy black swimsuit standing on a diving board, her back to the swimming pool. Top shot of Aileen Riggin standing on the board. She dives off backwards. "Miss Riggin says this dive is a "swan" dive, but her friend Mr Howercroft, the well-known Coach and Writer, calls it "A swallow" - so take your choice." We see the dive, first at normal speed then in slow motion. Aileen demonstrates what she calls a front jack-knife and what her coach calls a pike dive. A back dive is then shown and then a full twist (in which Miss Riggin excels). Various shots of Miss Riggin’s jack-knife. "Difficult and dangerous to execute - the half-gainer. (Slow-motion reveals how close a diver’s head is to the board.)" From a higher board we see Miss Riggin’s spectacular 1 1/2 front somersault "a real poem of motion."

Keywords

Women; Water sports

Written sources

The Bioscope   3 October 1928 p32.
Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.92
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP092 Used for synopsis
National Film Archive Catalogue

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