Smoke Jumpers

Duration: 11

Creator: United States Dept of Agriculture

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Portrays the work of the forest ranger, and the techniques he used to combat forest fires. Compaires the immobility of early forest rangers to the easy access fires made possible by the airplane today. Describes the training of "smoke jumpers" and encourages the audience to help prevent costly forest fires., Shows the smokejumpers, parachute fire fighters of the U S Forest Service, their training and equipment, parachuting into roadless areas and fighting forest fires. , Shows the smokejumpers, parachute fire fighters of the U S Forest Service, their training and equipment, parachuting into roadless areas and fighting forest fires.

Complete Record: Portrays the work of the forest ranger, and the techniques he used to combat forest fires. Compaires the immobility of early forest rangers to the easy access fires made possible by the airplane today. Describes the training of "smoke jumpers" and encourages the audience to help prevent costly forest fires., 02:43:44:22 VS smoke jumpers parachuting out of airplane into forest.; 02:54:45:17 VS men training, seven men do jumping jacks on grassy patch in the woods, VS CU 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.; 02:56:46:00 CU 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.”; 02:57:27:01 VS smokejumper falls from sky with parachutes into forest but gets parachute snagged on tree.; 02:58:10:23 VS plane flies low over forest as smoke-jumpers parachute out of airplane.; 03:00:29:12 VS smoke jumpers parachuting out of airplane into forest.; 03:01:22:07 VS smoke-umpers parachuting out of airplane into forest., Shows the smokejumpers, parachute fire fighters of the U S Forest Service, their training and equipment, parachuting into roadless areas and fighting forest fires. , 02:43:44:22 VS smoke jumpers parachuting out of airplane into forest.; 02:54:45:17 VS men training, seven men do jumping jacks on grassy patch in the woods, VS CU 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.; 02:56:46:00 CU 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.”; 02:57:27:01 VS smokejumper falls from sky with parachutes into forest but gets parachute snagged on tree.; 02:58:10:23 VS plane flies low over forest as smoke-jumpers parachute out of airplane.; 03:00:29:12 VS smoke jumpers parachuting out of airplane into forest.; 03:01:22:07 VS smoke-umpers parachuting out of airplane into forest., Shows the smokejumpers, parachute fire fighters of the U S Forest Service, their training and equipment, parachuting into roadless areas and fighting forest fires. NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.

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