Helicopter Rescue

Series

Series Name: British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

2173A

Date Released

28 Jan 1971

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Story

Story No. within this Issue

3 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Mountain Rescue. DESCRIPTION: A French police mountain rescue team on a realistic life-saving exercise. After a helicopter drop, its left to a tracker dog and expert skiers to locate the victim. SHOTLIST: G to A Gendarmes parachute from plane. LV man lands. CU man changing out of parachuting clothes. SV men changing into ski clothes. SV men set off up mountain. SV man and tracker dog pan to dog. GV mountain side with line of men walking pan to man & dog on their own. GV mountainside dog goes up to find victim snowed under. AV man digging victim out. AV shadow of rescue helicopter. GV pan men ski down mountain with victim on stretcher. SV rescue ‘copter lands. SV victim is loaded into ditto. LV ‘copter takes off.

Keywords

Sport; Health and medicine; Weather; Environment; Aviation; Winter sports; Accidents and disasters; Animals

Locations

France

Card file number

96676

Credits:

Commentator: Leslie Mitchell

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