Taki no shiraito / The Water Magician (directed by Kenji Mizoguchi and Takuaki Seiryô, 1933)
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Tag: 1930s
George Caddy :: This image brings a smile to most people familiar with Max Dupain’s iconic Sunbaker 1937. In fact, it is an exercise designed to strengthen the chest. As Health and Physical Culture (1 May 1935) noted: ’… the breath is literally trod out of the figure on the floor. The idea is to make the chest as elastic as possible – hence full inhalation followed by treading and then complete relaxation and inertion.’ 20 February 1937.
src: SLNSW
Thomas Longworth-Cooper :: Anita Heyworth as The Sun from ‘Peter and Ann’s Journey to the Moon’, at Christmas 1933 at the Prince’s Theatre, Manchester.
Edna Mae Jones, 1930’s / via mudwerks
George Caddy :: ‘Beachobatics’. The Graham gymnasts doing a six-man ground pyramid (from left to right, top row) Wal Balmus, Frank Cottier and Max Stewart hand-balance off Vic Whitehead and Jack Goldberg (face obscured), all supported by bearer Alf Stanbrough, Bondi Beach, Australia, 1936
src: State Library of New South Wales
George Caddy :: Candlestick. This triple balance involves one woman (Roya Geale) standing on the necks of two men, who in turn shoulder-balance on the feet of two others, forming a five-person centerpiece. Bondi Beach, 1930’s-1940’s
George Caddy :: ‘Beachobatics’. Arthur Coutts and his daughter Pauline, who performed at the Tivoli doing a one-hand balance on balance canes, Bondi Beach, Australia, Nov. 1939 / src: SL of NSW
Barbara Stanwyck in ‘Baby Face’ (1933) / via mudwerks
Gerda Taro and Robert Capa, 1930’s / src: el español
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