Camera Interviews -: Miss Joan Brunton the 11-year-old Swimmer

Series

Series Name: Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.

383

Date Released

4 Oct 1928

Stories in this Issue:

Story

Story No. within this Issue

2 / 7

Section Title

Camera Interviews -

Summary

British Pathe synopsis: Miss Joan Brunton is the little girl swimmer who astonished everybody by swimming from Dover to Deal - (10 miles) in 2 hours and 51 minutes. C/U of some flowers, suddenly Joan stands up in the middle of them with a big smile on her face. C/U of Joan sitting with her dog. Another C/U of Joan in a dress which then dissolves into a C/U of her wearing her swimming hat and swimsuit. Joan skips with a rope on the beach. "Joan just can’t help keeping fit - but she’s already watching the weighing machine closely - (and the 9st 4 lbs it registers now!)" Joan stands on the scales in her swim gear. C/U of her laughing at the scales. Joan is hoping to swim the Channel in 1929. M/S of Joan in training, she swims beside a boat where her coach sits giving her instruction. Various shots of Joan swimming. "But, she can’t resist chocolate!" Her coach feeds her with chocolate as she swims. "- or a chance to snap Ma and Pa!" Joan holds a cine camera and takes some shots of her parents in their garden. C/U of her holding the camera.

Keywords

Children; Swimming

Written sources

Kinematograph Weekly 11 October 1928 p49.
The Bioscope 10 October 1928 p42.
Pathe Inventory File Tin No.92
British Pathe Database 1997 Reference No.EP092 Used for synopsis

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