The Diver

March. 15,1911      
Rating:
4.9
Trailer Synopsis Cast

A fascinating pictorial document: On an old, cluttered work ship, a man is helped on with a bulky, old fashioned diving suit. It's a complicated process, many layers and sections are carefully applied. He goes over the side. Some men row out to what looks like a wrecked barge and set dynamite. Then the diver returns and now laughs and acknowledges the camera. The other men, now safely away, blow up the barge.

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Reviews

Cubussoli
1911/03/15

Very very predictable, including the post credit scene !!!

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MoPoshy
1911/03/16

Absolutely brilliant

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Afouotos
1911/03/17

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

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Guillelmina
1911/03/18

The film's masterful storytelling did its job. The message was clear. No need to overdo.

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boblipton
1911/03/19

While looking at this short educational film from 1911, I thought of how I intend to see GRAVITY this weekend, about two astronauts who become untethered from their space ship and face a terrible death. For almost fifty years, pulp magazines modeled their images of what space suits would like like on the heavy, bronze-headed suits that deep sea divers would wear in an equally alien environment.This eight-minute short is about a diver planting explosives underneath a sunken ship to blow the river clear for ship traffic. Three quarters of it covers getting the diver into his suit. Most of the titles are about the enormously heavy weights he must wear underwater: almost ninety pounds of metal. The preparations are fascinating and the explosion is almost an anti-climax.

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