[Byron]

Well, a lot to read but most absorbing to learn the background to something I had enjoyed stumbling upon (and I shall now never forget Carmen).

I was most impressed by the boys' energy and perfect timing (even the body shapes and heights seemed to be identical) and it proves that synchro displays can be done as well (if not better) by the boys as the girls.

The reference to conformity in the oriental psyche was also topical, having just watched part of the vast army of North Korea chillingly goose-stepping with perfect precision before their new Great Leader in PyongYang.

Btw as you mention Busby Berkeley's film sequences from the past I am
also reminded of an old pic I can no longer trace - so anyone out there
with any ideas?
These were pre-war water skiing shows put on at a place I think was called Cypress Gardens in Florida and guys on the skis would support girls on their shoulders to make a quite spectacular pyramid (and how they stayed intact in the towboat's wake I'll never know).