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1940s WATER SPORTS NOVELTY NEWSREEL EATING UNDERWATER 73912

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Channel: PeriscopeFilm · 2015 · Education

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If there had been a Youtube in the 1940s, this film would have been a million viewed video!  "Aquafrolics" features underwater ballet, a circus troupe of performers eating and smoking underwater, the Marine Studios in Florida where porpoises perform for the crowd and mermaid girls in one-piece swimsuits can be seen through an underwater window, sharks and a giant turtle battling a deep sea diver, water skiing stunts, Australian surf boarding, Mazatlan cliff diving, kayaking, puddle jumper swamp race boats a la James Bond and "LIve and Let Die", and more.

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