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Title: AIR SEA RESCUE I

Reference number: 8482

Date: 1961c

Production company: [ Templar Film Studios]

Sound: mute

Original format: 16mm

Colour: bw

Fiction: non-fiction

Running time: 3.01 mins

Description: Footage of US Air Force air rescue personnel and co-ordinated services in simulated exercises.

Shotlist: [no title] - int shots in US Air Force 67th Air Rescue Squadron base at Prestwick: personnel in briefing room - relaxing in common room, playing chess and darts, all depart on sound of alarm - same sequence shot from different angle - c/u shots of 67th Air Rescue Squadron cartoon emblem, pan to map of squadron's operational area [much of previous sequence oof] (1.08) gvs of lightship and other vessel on rough sea - brief shot of USAF Grumann Albatross aircraft - shots of men abseiling down steep rock face, stretcher at base, carrying stretcher away - shots of exercise with stretcher being abseiled down side of cliff - shot of ships on rough sea - shot of man answering phone inside lifeboat station and ext shot of station with crew arriving (3.01)