At Home in the Water (1912)

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

6 min

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The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

This is a short silent documentary from 1912. It shows George Hebden Corsan performing distance diving, a sport once in the Olympics.

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What happens

At Home in the Water è un cortometraggio muto del 1912. Non si conosce il nome del regista del film, un documentario che ha come protagonista George Hebden Corsan, esponente dei tuffi per distanza, uno sport che era stato inserito tra le gare dell'Olimpiade di Saint Louis del 1904 e che fu praticato in competizioni nazionali e internazionali fino al 1920 per poi essere abbandonato in favore di altre discipline. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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