1940s NOVELTY NEWSREELS DIVING, UNDERWATER BALLET, RISQUE LATIN RHUMBA DANCE 63004b

Created in the 1940s for home viewing, and sold to customers through the mail via ads in the back of popular magazines, these three short films feature beautiful women in skimpy costumes performing diving, underwater ballet, and the rhumba. The third film has a title card indicating it was sold via Joe Bonica’s “Movie of the Month“. Bonica was apparently one of the more successful entrepreneurs in this type of business, and although many of his titles featured the word “nude“ in them, his most popular title was apparently a short showing the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll. Opening titles: Movie Newsreels - Diving Exhibitions, Santa Barbara, CA (:06-:10). Coral Casino Club in Santa Barbara, CA. Marjorie Gestring climbs a ladder and gets to the diving board, she won a gold medal at the age of 13 in the 1936 Olympics. She bounces up and down on the diving board. She then does a swan dive, shown in slow motion. She does another dive, she does a twist followed by another swan dive. A running half gainer dive (