SPORTS: Polar Bear-niks.
SPORTS: Polar Bear-niks.
Clip: 363332_1_1
Year Shot: 1960
(Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1667
Original Film: 033-007-05
HD: N/A
Location: Russia
Timecode: 00:44:18 - 00:45:07
SPORTS: Polar Bear-niks. A group of ice-happy tovarisches carve a swimming hole in the surface of a frozen river and splash and cavort like so many frolicsome polar bears. Actually, the water's warm as borscht! Silly, foolish men wearing small Speedo-esque bathing suits -- and one woman, in regular swimsuit and bathing cap -- dive and swim in water exposed by cutting away ice. Even more foolish man dives into water and surfaces after apparently swimming under ice to another hole. Burly Russian man dries himself with towel.