Channel Swim Skit (1926)

Full title reads: “Channel swim skit. Professor Hacking Kauf, having swum the Channel, continues up Thames and finished up at Cookham Regatta!“ Exact location of events unknown. M/S of a small motor launch on River Thames decorated to look like a pirate ship. Lots of smoke comes out of stern, it half-capsizes and the crew dive into the water. People in canoes decorated as crocodiles close in on the pirate boat. M/S of two male swimmers with rubber inflatable swans around their waists towing along a man in a crocodile canoe along river. The man wears a false moustache and tips his hat at the camera. Very bizarre and surreal. Cuts exist - see separate record for details. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, whi