The War Time Situation at Home and Abroad Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: Russia’s "Secret Weapon" Fails
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- British Movietone News
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- 5 / 7
- Section Title
- The War Time Situation at Home and Abroad Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Russia’s "Secret Weapon" Fails Russia. DESCRIPTION: Russian parachute troops in training, but they were a failure when it came to the invasion of Finland. Finnish marksmen shot them down as they fell to earth. SHOTLIST: MS Parachutists into plane. Air to Air planes. LAS mass of Russian Air Force overhead (x2). AV Looking down Parachutist climbing onto plane wing. MS ditto. LAS three planes as parachutist jump. CU Pilot. AV looking down on plane as parachutists jump. MCU parachutist sliding down wing & jumping. LAS parachutist from planes (x2). GV Parachutists land on ground. Russia’s Secret Weapon Fails - CARD 38229 Various library shots of the Russian rehearsal of landing troops by massed parachute descent from bombers.
- Keywords
- Aviation; Military
- Footage sources
- Library
- Card file number
- 37887A
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Length of story (in feet)
- 43
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