- Title: AUSTRALIA: NUDE PARACHUTING IN A WARM CLIMATE
- Date: 28th December 1980
- Summary: 1. GV Small ???ghwing mono-plane flying overhead as music blares 0.08 2. GV Parachutist coming down and landing 0.14 3. CU INTERIOR aircraft: nude woman in parachute harness at door 0.18 4. SV Male parachutist leaps from aircraft 0.21 5. GV Woman floating down on parachute and landing in sand 0.27 6. GV Another parachutist coming down 0.32 7. SV Man clinging to strut on aircraft wing, lets go and falls 0.37 8. GV Woman parachutist landing in sand 0.42 9. CU Woman lands on backside ZOOM INTO judges measuring point of landing (2 shots) 0.51 10. GV Parachutist landing 1.00 11. GV Nudists and judges standing at landing site as another parachutist lands (2 shots) 1.09 12. SV Woman folding and packing parachute and another male lands (3 shots) 1.22 TRANSCRIPT: TURNBULL: "Skydiving's not exactly a new sport; it's been around for decades. But, if you take a closer look at these particular parachutists, you'll notice they're not your run-of-the-mill acrobats. With little more than a parachute and courage, they took to the blue sky over Tocumwal for Australia's first Nude Skydiving Championships. As with all truly great sporting events, the competitors gathered from around the nation. Though some of the landings were less than copybook, you couldn't knock their style." "The championships were organised by the Bungalee Holiday Village, a nudist colony peacefully set on the banks of the Murray (River). In the last few months, the colony's formed its own nudist skydiving club. And today's events attracted thirty entrants. The championships were designed as a test of accuracy, with the flyers required to jump more than one thousand metres (yards) and land on a target rather delicately placed in a waiting sandpit. Although the competition was fierce, with the entrants vying for a mammoth forty dollars (GBP 20 sterling) prizemoney, the organisers admit there was still time for fun." Initials EC/ SPORT: PARACHUTING TELERECORDING REPORTER: DAVID TURNBULL AVAILABLE FOR COMMERCIAL USE Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
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- Location: TOCUMWAL, NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA
- Country: Australia
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