WITH THE GREATEST OF EASE (short version) [Main Title]

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  • Title: WITH THE GREATEST OF EASE (short version) [Main Title]
  • Film Number: COI 700
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  • Summary: Training of recruits for the Parachute Regiment.
  • Description: The Regiment's motto is 'Knowledge dispels fear', and knowledge means thorough training. The film shows the various stages of this process: practising the separate elements of the jump and conditioning the body to the various stresses encountered during descent and landing; trial jump with a harness from a tower; first test jump from a tethered balloon; and the first descent from an aircraft. "Weeks of preparation and discipline produce the counter to any last minute doubt of stepping out."
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  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: COI 700
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM
  • Featured Period: 1946-1975
  • Production Date: 1957
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Central Office of Information (Production sponsor) Marcus Cooper Ltd (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Parachute Regiment (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: aircraft, British - transport: Blackburn Beverley (object name) aircraft, British - transport: Handley Page Hastings (object name) training, British military - specialist: paratroop (object name) GB, England (geography)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English Title language: English Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 257 ft; Running time: 3 mins
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