Year

1960 (circa)

Video Details

4:38; b&w; sound; V-52 AA070; S. 828

Description

Miss America, Vonda Van Dyke, cavorts on skis for the press at Cypress Gardens. Shots of the attraction's camera boat reveal how the ski scenes were shot. Miss America has a pop-up camper as a mobile changing room. She is seen posing on skis, driving an outboard, on a surfboard in a boat wake, swimming, sailing, with four other women on a water toboggan, with a ventriloquist's dummy and with Dick Pope Jr. and Sr.

Corporate Subject

Cypress Gardens (Winter Haven, Fla.)
Miss America (Beauty pageant)

Geographic Subject

Winter Haven

Personal Subject

Pope, Dick, 1900-1988
Van Dyke, Vonda

Subject

Attractions
Beauty pageants
Boating
Promotional films
Water skiing
Water sports