Flying the Foam and Some Fancy Diving

January. 01,1906      
Rating:
5.3
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Innovative early 'trick' film showing the popular 'flying the foam' stunt performed on - or rather off - Brighton's West Pier.

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Reviews

Exoticalot
1906/01/01

People are voting emotionally.

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Moustroll
1906/01/02

Good movie but grossly overrated

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Voxitype
1906/01/03

Good films always raise compelling questions, whether the format is fiction or documentary fact.

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Ariella Broughton
1906/01/04

It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

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boblipton
1906/01/05

James Williamson, one of the pioneers of the British film industry, produced this shot of Professor Reddish, a water clown that used to be called a 'tumeler' in the Catskills -- he rides a bicycle hither and yon and does some basic dives, albeit from a great height -- one of them looks to be from a good twenty meters into the water.Williamson attempts to enliven a rather straightforward performance by running some of the sequences backwards, so that the Professor seems to leap from the water back to the bike several times, but by 1906, that was rather old hat. The record is a bit sketchy, but he would seem to have largely gone out of production within a year of this work, with one or two later efforts.

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