Priority for Paratroops
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 5 / 8
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Training of Parachutists. DESCRIPTION: More and more paratroops came into the picture in Algeria. Men who had just completed preliminary training at an Algerian base, had their big moment, the first jump from an aircraft. SHOTLIST: MS paratroopers in plane. Shots of paratroopers leaving plane. Shots from plane of men floating down on parachutes. Shots of men leaving plane for delayed action drops. Shots of men dropping down.
- Keywords
- Aviation; Military
- Locations
- Algeria; Blida
- Footage sources
- France
- Card file number
- 72207
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Geoffrey Sumner
- Length of story (in feet)
- 90
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