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:
Film clip

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