Necking on the Neckar River

Series

Series Name
Eve And Everybody’s Film Review

Issue

Issue No.
535
Date Released
3 Sep 1931
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1Beach Pebbles
  2. 2The Massage Robot!
  3. 3Necking on the Neckar River
  4. 4Fifty years Ago - The Evolution of Cycling
  5. 5And now today
  6. 6Camera Interviews -: A Camera Interview with Miss Joyce Cooper the Famous Swimmer
  7. 7The Lavender Harvest

Story

Story No. within this Issue
3 / 7
Summary
NoS Summary - New invention which fits around the neck and aids swimming.
British Pathe synopsis: Introductory intertitle reads: "And a really new kind of "necking" - to be precise a novel German "head boat." M/S of a strange looking contraption. Man puts it over a woman’s head, she puts her arms through straps. She steps into the water. "Once on the go - you can’t stop going!" Woman turns handle on the front of the device and it moves her through the water. Various shots of her operating this invention! Neckar River - Germany.
Keywords
Swimming; Inventions and discoveries
Written sources
Pathe Inventory File   Tin No.218
British Pathe Database 1997   Reference No.EP218 Used for synopsis
National Film Archive Catalogue
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