INSPECTION OF RINGWAY AND TATTON PARK PARACHUTE SCHOOL [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: INSPECTION OF RINGWAY AND TATTON PARK PARACHUTE SCHOOL [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: ARY 22-3
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  • Summary: Staff officers inspects a parachute training school.
  • Description: Air Marshal Arthur Barratt and Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Paget (C-in-C Home Forces) inspect the assembled troops who then file and march off. They disperse to form up in squads before jogging into a hangar. Scenes of descents from the balloon basket intersperse more scenes of hangar training, drops from an Armstrong Whitworth Whitley and a rowing boat retrieving personnel from Tatton Park lake.
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  • Colour: B&W
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  • Object_Number: ARY 22-3
  • Sound: Silent
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (ARY 22-3)
  • Featured Period: 1939-1945
  • Production Date: 1942-07-30
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Air Force (Production sponsor) RAF Film Production Unit (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Barratt, Arthur Sheridan (person) Paget, Bernard Charles Tolver (person) Royal Air Force, Women's Auxiliary Air Force (regiment/service) Royal Air Force, Sqdn 297 (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: aircraft, British - combat: Armstrong Whitworth Whitley Mk II (object name) aircraft, British - balloon: parachute training (object name) Ringway, Cheshire, England, UK (geography) Tatton Park, Cheshire, England, UK (geography) half-light (concept)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: B&W Sound format: Silent Soundtrack language: None Title language: None Subtitle language: None
  • Technical Details: Format: 35mm Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Footage: 874 ft; Running time: 9 mins
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    ARY 22-3

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