Pulling Together on Life Line
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- British Movietone News
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- 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:
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- Commentator
- Leslie Mitchell
- Camera
- Norman Fisher
- Length of story (in feet)
- 221
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