Amateur Swimming (1920)

Kew to Putney, London. Intertitle: “AMATEUR SWIMMING. Long distance championship won by 40 yrds in 1 hr. 4 min 55 sec“. M/S, taken from on board a boat, of swimmers in the River Thames. M/S of the swimmers, several rowing boats with numbers on the front move next to the competitors, in the background a steam powered boat chugs past. C/U of one of the competitors smiling - probably the winner. More shots of the competitors swimming next to the rowing boats. 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, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content f