Parachute Champions

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1422

Date Released

3 Sep 1956

Date submitted

28 Aug 1956

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Soviet Athletes Call It Off
2. 2Miss Great Britain
3. 3Bathing Beauties Get Wet
4. 4Cyprus - The Truce Ends
5. 5A Royal Holiday
6. 6Russian Go Home
7. 7Parachute Champions
8. 8Police Tattoo

Story

Story No. within this Issue

7 / 8

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Parachute Championship - 3rd World Parachute Championship. DESCRIPTION: At Moscow’s Tushion Airfield, teams from ten countries took part in the Third World Parachute Championships. SHOTLIST: Teams into planes. Plane in air. Shot looking down to the ground. Various shots of parachutists out of plane. Parachutist free falling. CU stopwatch. Parachutist’s parachute opens. Parachutist out of plane. Free falling. Shot of X on ground. Parachutist into land on the X. Woman looking through binoculars. Parachutist lands on X.

Keywords

Competitions

Locations

Moscow; Russia; Tushino Airport

Footage sources

British Paramount

Card file number

68075

Credits:

Commentator

Geoffrey Sumner

Length of story (in feet)

95

Story extras:

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