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 22-1
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  • Summary: Staff officers inspects a parachute training school.
  • Description: A singleton parachutist lands in slow motion. At Tatton Park, a man jumps from a captive balloon and his 'chute deploys. A trainee descends a slide in the hangar onto a mat and rolls. Other training activities and apparatus is demonstrated and explained to the inspecting officers. Troops in the fuselage of a Whitley sing before the drop. Note the sergeant sports a parachute instructor's badge. A view through the Whitley floor is taken. At Ringway the inspecting officers inspect the Guard of Honour and the WAAF Band. A Whitley flies over and two canisters are dropped followed by a shot of a single parachutist.
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © IWM (ARY 22-1)
  • 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: 359 ft; Running time: 4 mins
  • Notes: Summary: Shot sheet and dope sheet held. Some excellent shots are included in this record of training parachutists. As a general observation ARY 11 follows the dope sheet more closely and inevitably shots are duplicated throughout the reels of this number. A good record with some atmospheric scenes.
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