Tree-Top Training

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1331A

Date Released

9 Dec 1954

Date submitted

29 Nov 1954

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1The Smithfield Show
2. 2A Rum Do
3. 3Tree-Top Training
4. 4Prince Rainier of Monaco
5. 5Beauty in the Kitchen
6. 6'Varsity Rugger Clash’

Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 6

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Special Air Service - Tree Top Training. DESCRIPTION: The dense Malayan jungle seems a most unlikely place to drop paratroopers, but men of the Special Air Service Regiment have made a successful trial jump with special apparatus to enable them to descend from the tree-tops. SHOTLIST: Aerial view of the jungle. A marker balloon is set off from a clearing in the jungle. GV inside of the plane. CU of types. Paratroopers jumping. GV of paratroopers coming down. GV of a man coming down from a tree by means of a webbing belt. CU of the paratrooper.

Keywords

Military

Locations

Malaya

Footage sources

Malayan Film Unit

Card file number

62370

Credits:

Commentator

Lionel James Gamlin

Length of story (in feet)

90

Story extras:

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