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have been shot at Richmond.
In one, titled ‘The Heat
Wave, London children solve
the problem of how to stay
cool’, a mass of children
jump off a narrow pier into
the Thames. They appear all
to be boys, most of them
naked, as they dive-bomb,
topple and fall into the water,
which quickly becomes a
soup of splashing bodies.
Another film shows the
‘London Scottish’ crossing