Synopsis
smoke jumpers parachuting out of airplane into forest. men training; seven men do jumping jacks on grassy patch in the woods; men stretching their necks, rotating heads in circle; men in two rows of three do push-ups; men one by one jump of platform hit and roll back onto their feet; climb rope; somersault onto landing pad; climb monkey bars; strange mechanism “the muscle building torture rack” as announced on audio track, where line of men with feet tied to long log lean backward 90 degrees then pull themselves back up to vertical position; men in parachute suits jump off platform attached to bungee cord. man’s crotch in protective smoke-jumpers suit. Two hands grab man’s ground area knock man in crotch. Audio track “And the webbing guarded crotch can take any sort of treatment a jumper’s likely to encounter, including barbed wire fences.” smokejumper falls from sky with parachutes into forest but gets parachute snagged on tree. plane flies low over forest as smoke-jumpers parachute out of airplane. smoke jumpers parachuting out of airplane into forest. smoke-umpers parachuting out of airplane into forest.
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- Running time
- 9 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
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★★★★ · Yeowwwwwww · Spuzz · 2016-02-23
Not a bad overview of the new Smokejumpers service the forest department was using. After, rigourous training, firemen could jump out of planes, and be dropped into remote areas of forest to fight (hopefully!) minor forest fires. The best part of this film is the training exercises that the would-be firemen had to do. I especially liked when they tied their feet on a log and they had to bend bend bend! This is something I've never seen before... Recommended!