Pulling Together on Life Line

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1926

Date Released

2 May 1966

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Pulling Together on Life Line
2. 2Into Top Gear
3. 3What’s New Newsflash
4. 4Acrobats of the Air
5. *Scottish Cup Final

* Story has local or special distribution

Story

Story No. within this Issue

1 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Pulling Together on Life Line. DESCRIPTION: Life Line, the biggest combined Service Exercise, reached its climax in Wales. It involved ten thousand servicemen and was laid on to test the three services in their operational roles. SHOTLIST: Key Scene. GV helicopters on Operation Lifeline. LS helicopter landing. MLS troops out of helicopter and helicopter flies off. LSD troops run across open ground. MS ditto. MS ditto. LS ditto. MS soldiers running machine gun in ditch. CU ditto. MS ditto. MS company of Bersaglieri regiment from Italy run out of barracks. MS ditto. MS officers discussing plan of operation. CU one of officers. CU another officer. CU map. Pan helicopter flies past. Aerial shot. HMS Fearless at Castlemartin. Aerial shot ditto showing entrance to dry dock. GV landing craft leaving. CU observer looking through binoculars. GV landing craft coming up to beach. CU observer looking through binoculars. LS landing craft coming up to beach. Aerial shot ditto. LS vehicles off landing craft. Aerial shot ditto. LS ditto. MS ditto. LS vehicles off landing craft and up beach. MS observers watching. MCU ditto. CU ditto. zoom in armoured car on Operation Lifeline. MS soldiers in armoured car directing in planes with parachutists. LAS parachutists dropped from plane. LAS ditto. GV parachutists landing. Pan down ditto. Ditto. Ditto. Ditto. MS ditto. Pan down ditto. MCU soldier dressing injured leg of other soldier. CU ditto. MS ditto.

Local distribution only

Not shown in Scotland.

Keywords

Aviation; Navy; Military

Locations

Wales; Castlemartin

Card file number

91058

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Camera

Norman Fisher

Length of story (in feet)

221

Story extras:

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