PORTOBELLO POOL

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Title: PORTOBELLO POOL

Reference number: 6294

Date: 1934*/1935*

Sound: silent

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 3.05 mins

Description: General views of the eave at the Portobello pool, with people in water as tests on the wave machine are carried out. Tests on the Empire Pool at Wembley, England.

Shotlist: [no title] Gv's of the wave at the Portobello pool. Waves swell along empty pool as men observe (1.32) man in pool with heavy waves (1.44) Empire Swimming Pool, Wembley. Film of wave effect during testing: No. 1 and 2 pistons working No. 3 and 4 pistons stationary gvs tests on the pool at Wembley. There are children in the pool, one girl wears a rubber ring round her waist (2.57) Later test No. 1, 2 and 3 pistons working No. 4 stationary [no actual footage of same] (3.05)