Kites. A collage of kites and kiteflyers - ACE095.4

Indian group flying kites. Man demonstrates Indian kite made of tissue paper and shows how kite-flyers can cut the line of opponents’ kites with that of their own. Group launch and fly several kites. Man with a kiskiri, based on a Trinidadian fighting kite. He demonstrates how it can be made to wiggle about in the air. Kite with smoke canister at its end, making patterns in the air. A trio of linked diamond-shaped kites doing acrobatics in formation. Two linked rectangular curved kites. The structure of such kites – linked "bags" which fill up with air; launching one. A linked formation of six such shapes pulling long tubular tail; formation of nine; similar formation with a tail. View of wind running through the long tubular tail. Tubular tail linked to two curved kites. Five linked kites flying. Experimental kite shaped rather like a cucumber. Five rectangular kites pulling up a white "sail". Three formation-linked kites performing. Kite-flyers being pulled along by kite. Credits, over and intercut with scenes of kites and kite-flyers.