Dive-Hi Champs
1946
⏱️ 10 min
📅 Released
🌐 EN
Documentary
Dive-Hi Champs is a 1946 short documentary film, a Grantland Rice Sportlight segment from Paramount Studios and Jack Eaton featuring a cavalcade of diving highlights, from youngsters at the local swimming hole to athletes jumping from giant earth-moving equipment in the Panama Canal. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Live Action Short Film, One-Reel.
Cast
User Reviews
July 21, 2025
Well it does pretty much what it says on the can, repetitively, and to be honest once you’ve seen some scantily clad beauty leap from a 33 foot diving board replete with some sexist commentary, then you’ve seen them all. Perhaps the most remarkable things here are: a fella diving onto a trampoline suspended over the pool then on for a splash; some fairly stable slo-motion coverage as they leap off an huge dock gate and into the Panama Canal and then the three year old Duncan - replete with his own monogrammed swimming trunks, who takes to the board and the water like a natural. There is room here for a quirkier comedy, maybe even a Pete Smith, because otherwise it’s all a bit wet.
Crew
Director
Jack Eaton
Production
Paramount Pictures