This film presents a series of female American champion diving and swimming stars in the late 1930’s including Helen Crlenkovich, Marian and Virginia Hopkins, Iris Cummings and Marjorie Gestring. It features areas such as the Vista del Arroyo pool in Pasadena, the Los Angeles Olympic pool, the Santa Barbara Biltmore pool and the Sunset Tower Hotel Pool in Beverly Hills. It is presented by Pictorial Films (:07) and produced by Frederic Ullman Jr. (:29). It opens with a graceful slow-motion dive by Helen Crlenkovich. She was one of the most successful athletes in the world on the three-meter spring board and the ten-meter platform. Here she was the recent runner up in the springboard diving championship and is seen practicing for the National Meeting at the Pasadena’s Vista del Arroyo pool (:59). In national as well as Olympic competitions there are five compulsory dives as well as five elective dives which can be of varying difficulty (1:05). Helen is seen conducting the half twist dive (1:28). At the age of 17, she was the only American girl whom had competed in this competition (1:42). She gracefully completes a full twisting one and a half dive (2:01) as well as a single layout somersault dive (2:20). The back dive (2:38) is compulsory in all diving competitions. The back one and a half somersault she then does is generally only conducted by top divers (2:56) and her final dive is the front jack knife (3:09). Iris Cummings follows (3:24) who was an American aviator and competition swimmer who competed in the 1936 Berlin Olympics. She was also the national breast stroke title winner. She is practicing in the Sunset Towers pool in Beverly Hills and begins with her title winning swim in slow motion (4:00). Iris then shows the butterfly style swim (4:03). On a 33-foot tower is 18-year-old national platform diving champion, Ruth Jump (4:17) diving into the LA Olympic pool. She then conducts the one- and one-half somersault dive (4:47) and half gainer dive (4:57). Ruth was the leading amateur platform diver in the Berlin Olympics and she completes her set with a back one and a half somersault (5:11). Twins Marian and Virginia Hopkins (5:26) race against one another in the Huntington pool in Pasadena. The pair had set sixteen national and four world swimming records. Their racing dive is shallow (8:41) and once in the waters begin with a flutter kick (5:47). After breaking into a full stroke, the girls hit the wall and spin for a push off (6:04). Marian is zoomed in on (6:14) as the national hundred-meter free style champion. Marjorie Gestring, the youngest to earn an Olympic gold medal, practices at the Santa Barbara Biltmore pool (6:27). She was thirteen when she took the gold medal (6:34). From the diving board she does a back one and a half somersault (7:00), a back-jack knife (7:12), a running half twist (7:27) and a full twist (7:41). She also conducts a half gainer (8:12) and adds a half twist to a half gainer (8:42). Shortly before these films were made, she began platform diving and after only ten weeks of practice, she took second place in the National Championships (9:00). The film concludes just after Marjorie conducts a one- and one-half somersault (9:07).

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