“ FEMININE FLASHES IN THE WORLD OF SPORT “ 1940s WOMEN’S ATHLETICS TENNIS, BOXING, TRACK XD75864

Join this channel to get access to perks: Want to learn more about Periscope Film and get access to exclusive swag? Join us on Patreon. Visit Visit our website “Feminine Flashes in the World of Sports” is a black-and-white newsreel style film that sheds light on women’s sports during the late 1930s / early 1940s. Presented by Philip M. Brown and produced by Central Films, the film features first hand footage of reigning champions and up-and-coming stars in the world of women’s sports from tennis and track to billiards and boxing such as Eleanor Holm, Sonja Henie, and Emma Chambers Maitland among others. Narrated by Don Beddoe, this film highlights an important moment in history for the 1930s was a major turning point for female athletes that fell in the middle of the physical education age of recreational activities. Opening credits overlaid scene of synchronized swimmers in pool (0:08). Three women run along outdoor track, adverts on billboards line track (0:25). Other angles of race, women clutch batons in hand (0:28). Female hurdlers jump over hurdles (0:38). Elizabeth Lindsay, champion women’s discus, prepares stance (0:51). Sylvia Jan Rothenburg stands on pitch for shot-put, male officials in suits look on (0:59). Alice Arden runs towards high jump, montage of her clearing the jump (1:03). Long-jump: Marie Catrell and Sybil (Cough?) run towards sand pit for long-jump, male officials in suits look on (1:20). Girls lacrosse team competes in uniform of short dresses, short sleeve shirt (1:48). Canoe race - about 7 girls per long canoe, row in synch across tree-lined lake in New England (2:28). Rowing on perhaps Lake Waban - about 8 girls per boar in position at start of rowing race at Wellesley College (2:58). Young women prepare to dive into pool from diving block for 1-mile championship freestyle race, onlookers sit around pool in stands (3:31). Close-up champion swimmer of Carnegie Library Club, Homestead Pennsylvania taking the lead (3:42). Montage female divers twisting in air, crowds look on from around pool (4:06). 220 yard backstroke race - featuring Eleanor Holm, Elizabeth (Compa?) (4:32). Close-up Eleanor Holm post-race (5:05). 1936 Wimbledon Championships - doubles tennis match on Center Court ft. Freda James, Kay Stammers (UK) vs. Helen Jacobs, Sarah Palfrey Fabyan (USA) (5:08). Ski jump event - Norwegian female skiers complete jump, young girls on father’s shoulders looks on cheerily (5:43). Sonja Henie, champion figure skater, twirls, skates around outdoor rink in Norway while crowd looks on (6:02). Bull fighting in southern Spain, female matador maneuvers bull as crowd looks on from stands (6:27). Close-up female fencers dueling in uniform that features skirt (6:50). Billiards competition - women hunch over table with cue to set up shot, women in 1930s-era dresses sit along wall in background ft. Flower sisters (7:10). Woman runs toward bowling lane in bowling competition ft. Patricia Prescott (7:57). Female Fisticuff Championship of Harlem boxing match ft. Emma Chambers Maitland, Aurelia Wheeldin (8:26). Ending credits overlaid synchronized swimmers (9:58). Motion picture films don’t last forever; many have already been lost or destroyed. For almost two decades, we’ve worked to collect, scan and preserve the world as it was captured on 35mm, 16mm and 8mm movies -- including home movies, industrial films, and other non-fiction. If you have endangered films you’d like to have scanned, or wish to donate celluloid to Periscope Film so that we can share them with the world, we’d love to hear from you. Contact us via the weblink below. 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