- Title: VM-1214A
- Summary: THESE ARE OUR FIGHTING MEN: SOVIET PARATROOPS IN TRAINING.
- Description:00:00:51 - LS PARATROOP JUMPS OFF HIGH TOWER WITH OPEN PARACHUTE. TILT DOWN TO VARIETY OF ACTIVITIES TROOP IN TRAINING, INCLUDING PARATROOP ON CARTWHEEL SPINNING RAPIDLY. VOICE OVER, "THIS IS WHERE THEY DEVELOPE STRENGTH AND STAMINA".ZOOM IN MAN SPINNING ON CARTWHEEL. VIEW OF SPINNING LANDSCAPE AS SEEN BY HIM. MEN IN HARNESS DROP FROM HIGH MOVING CONVEYOR INTO SAND PIT, AS THEY PRACTICE IMPACT OF LANDING FROM PARACHUTE JUMP. TOWARDS 00:01:26 - SOLDIER DROPPING IN PARACHUTE SHOOT HIS MACHINE GUNA AT TARGET AS HE DROPS. ANOTHER THROWS DAGGER AT TARGET BEFORE LANDING. PARATROOP DROPS INTO POOL OF WATER. VARIOUS SHOTS PARATROOPS RUNNING THROUGH OBSTACLE COURSE, JUMPING OVER OBSTACLE WITH GUNS IN STRAPPED TO BACKS. ABOVE VIEW SOLDIERS RUNNING THROUGH VARIETY OBSTACLES, LEAPING ONER WALLS, RUNNING ACROSS ROPE BRIDGES WITHOUT LOOSING BALANCE. 00:02:25 - PARATROOP CRAWLS THROUGH LARGE SEWER PIPE, DIVES TO GROUND, SEES TARGET, TAKES OUT DAGGER, THROWS IT AND HITS TARGET WITH DAGGER. 00:02:41 - SQUAD PARATROOPS ON DIRT ROAD DOING 25 KILOMETER MARCH AT TOP SPEED. MS AT 13 KILOMETERS SQUAD RUNS ACROSS KNEE-HIGH RIVER TOWARDS CAMERA. MLS AT 20 KILOMETERS SOLDIERS RUN. MCU SOLDIERS BREATHE HEAVILY AS THEY RUN. MS SPLASHING THROUGH STREAM TOWARDS CAMERA AND L TO R. ONE SOLDIER GOES BACK TO PICK UP HIS BOOT, EMPTIES IT OF WATER. MS AT ONE HUNDRED METERS TO FINISH, MEN RUN THROUGH FLOWER FIELD. 00:04:30 - MCU EXHAUSTED MEN WIPE SWEAT, DRINK FROM CANTEENS AT FINISH LINE. 00:05:07 - FACE SHOTS MEN RELAXING, WATCHING SOCCER GAME ON ROLLING TV SCREEN. WITH INDOOR ANTENNA. 00:05:30 - VARIOUS SHOTS PARATROOPS GETTING ROUGH AS THEY ARE INSTRUCTED IN UNARMED DEFENSE IN OUTDOOR FIELD. VARIOUS SHOTS. MAN PUTTING STRANGLE HOLD ON COMRADE. ANOTHER WRESTLES KNIFE FROM HAND OF OPPONENT. INSTRUCTOR FLIPS SOLDIER AS HE INSTRUCTS IN JU JUJITSU, ARM HOLDS AND OTHER FORMS OF UNARMED DEFENCE, AS OTHERS WATCH. self defense. VOICE OVER "....PARATROOPERS HAVE A SAYING, "ONLY THE MISSILES ARE AHEAD OF US". 00:05:31 - VARIOUS SCENES PARATROOPS JUMPING OUT OF PLANERS. SHOTS FROM INSIDE AND OUTSIDE PLANES. MEN AND HEAVY EQUIPMENT FALL TO EARTH IN PARACHUTES. LS JEEPS OTHER EQUIPMENT LANDING HEAVILY IN FIELD. OFFICERS WATCH FROM GROUND. LS SKY FULL OF PARACHUTES. 00:07:45 - TROOPER JUMPING OUT OF PLANE GETS HUNG UP ON TAIL OF PLANE. COMRADE CLIMBS OUT TOWARDS HIM, AS MEN WATCH THE DRAMA UNFOLD FROM GROUND AND INSIDE PLANE. CU TROOPER CLIMBS UP BODY OF COMRADE, CUTS HIM LOOSE, BOTH FLOAT TO EARTH. SAFELY. 00:09:08 - BOTH EMBRACE AFTER LANDING SAFELY, OTHERS RUN TO THEM, ALL EMBRACE. LS PAN VARIOUS SHOTS HUNDREDS PARATROOPS IN AIR AND LANDING. 00:09:23 - GATES OPEN AT ARMY CENTER LARGE CONTINGENT OF NEW RECRUITS IN CIVILIAN CLOTHES MARCH FOUR ABREAST INTO CAMP. AS BAND PLAYS. MCU ARMY DRUMMER POUNDS BASE DRUM. CU PLAYING CYMBALS. RECRUITS MARCHING INTO CAMP, PAS SQUAD OF UNIFORMED SOLDIERS MARCHING IN OPPOSITE DIRECTION. CU FACE SHOTS RECRUITS, FACE SHOT SOLDIERS. VIEW SQUAD SOLDIERS, BACKS TO CAMERA MARCHING SMARTLY OUT THE GATES. 00:10:25 - PAN FIELD OF FLOWERS. SOUNDS OF BIRDS CHIRPING, TILT UP TO SKY (ROAR OF PLANES SOUND). LARGE CARGO PLANES IN FLIGHT. PARATROOPS SITTING INSIDE PLANE. PAN FACE SHOTS. BUZZER SOUNDS. LARGE TRAP DOORS OPEN, LIGHT SIGNALS "READY", ABOVE SCREAMING PARATROOPS LEAPING OUT TRAP DOORS. FIELDS BELOW IN B/G. TITLE: (IN RUSSIAN) "THESE ARE FIGHTING MEN". SUPER-IMPOSED OVER PARATROOPS DROPPING OUT OF PLANES.
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1970
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1970s
- File Name: VM-1214A