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Title: PARA RESCUERS

Reference number: 8445

Date: 1962c

Production company: Templar Film Studios

Sound: mute

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: Non-Fiction

Running time: 4.13 mins

Description: News footage of a US Air Force para-rescuers unit training exercise.

[Please note the viewing copy may display some visible defects such as flicker]

Shotlist: [shot-listed from mini DV - manual control track]

[no title] - shots of US Air Force para-rescuers and other personnel in field, one rolling up parachute, others taking measurements from parachute drops to central point - gvs personnel watching aircraft flying overhead - man takes out hand-held anemometer to take wind measurement - hazy shots of aircraft flying over and parachutists floating down - more shots of measurements of parachute drops - gv of field with parachutes - shots of parachutists landing in field, measurements, watchers on ground (3.06) int shots in technical room of technician operating control panel, watched by group of men in suits - shots of man with transmitter in field - more shots of aircraft overhead and parachutists falling (4.13)