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The War Time Situation at Home and Abroad Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: Russia’s "Secret Weapon" Fails

Series

Series Name
British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.
548A
Date Released
7 Dec 1939
Date submitted
1939
Stories in this Issue:
  1. 1The War Time Situation at Home and Abroad Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: Christmas Prelude from New York
  2. 2The War Time Situation at Home and Abroad Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: Early Christmas for Evacuated Kids
  3. 3The War Time Situation at Home and Abroad Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: Behind the Scenes at French Ghq
  4. 4The War Time Situation at Home and Abroad Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: U-Boat Prisoners Smile on England
  5. 5The War Time Situation at Home and Abroad Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: Russia’s "Secret Weapon" Fails
  6. 6The War Time Situation at Home and Abroad Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: The King in France
  7. 7The War Time Situation at Home and Abroad Reviewed by Leslie Mitchell: Lighter Moments with the BEF - VI Loraine Comes Back

Story

Story No. within this Issue
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:
Commentator
Leslie Mitchell
Length of story (in feet)
43
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