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Daring Parachute Descent

Date released

7 Jun 1926

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

771-2

NoS ID

130576

Story no

4 / 6

Alan Cobham helps M Navarre with his parachute drop.

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Parachute Games (2002)

Subject

Education

Distribution

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Dale le Fevre demonstrates 20 different games using a parachute. Some are well known, but others are unusual inventions. Parachute games are a good way to learn about co-operation, self control and many...

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Matter of Life and Death, A (1945 Film)

aka: Stairway to Heaven

Director

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

Producer

Michael Powell; Emeric Pressburger

A British wartime aviator who cheats death by miraculously surviving bailing out of his plane without a parachute must argue for his life before a celestial court. Fantasy film, ostensibly produced with the...

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Plane Parachute

Date released

24 Mar 1932

Series name

Universal News

Issue no

178

NoS ID

138650

Story no

6 / 9

Extras

1 commentary sheet

Largest parachute in the world tested successfully.

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News in Flashes: Stop Press: Parachute Boat

Date released

23 Aug 1948

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1824

NoS ID

041201

Story no

6 / 8

American Superfortress drops specially-constructed lifeboat by parachute.

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Parachute Descent

Date released

30 Jun 1927

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

827-1

NoS ID

131359

Story no

3 / 5

Parachute descent from a burning aeroplane at Northolt.

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The Salvator Parachute

Date released

6 Dec 1926

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

797-2

NoS ID

130932

Story no

2 / 6

Italian officer demonstrates the ‘Salvator’ parachute.

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News in Flashes: Stop Press: Parachute Story in US

Date released

24 May 1948

Series name

British Paramount News

Issue no

1798

NoS ID

041061

Story no

4 / 7

US 82nd Airborne Division stages mass parachute jump in Kentucky.

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Air Thrills at Brighton

Date released

23 Oct 1919

Series name

Topical Budget

Issue no

426-1

NoS ID

127368

Story no

3 / 5

[SUBTITLE]: "Prof. Newell performs the daring feat of a double parachute descent from an aeroplane. "Leaving the aeroplane. Note the second descent from the ‘Guardian Angel’ parachute"."

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Commandos of the Air

Date released

25 Nov 1940

Series name

Warwork News

Issue no

S15/B; Paramount Issue No.: 1016

NoS ID

156575

Story no

3 / 3

The Parachute Squad. Mr Leslie L (Arwin?) [sic] supervises parachute manufacture. Men perform exercises in readiness to learn how to fall correctly; trained to ward off enemy attack after landing; perform...

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