Title:OPERATION BRACKEN: THE BLACK WATCH SOUTH OF BAGHDAD, 2004 (TAPE 4) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFA 2814
Other titles:HEADQUARTERS LAND COMMAND ARMY 2004 COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Black Watch Battlegroup convoy on its journey along the Main Supply Route towards the south of Baghdad prior to Operation Bracken.
Description: 04:00:00 Bars and tone.
04:00:30 Shots from top cover of moving vehicle show Warrior armoured vehicles driving alongside giving force protection to the convoy. Vehicles on road, including Warrior and Humvee. Convoy passes ruined buildings.
04:03:50 Convoy proceeds along tarmacadamed road, passing civilians (including tractors), stalls and and buildings at the roadside. Cameraman swears as the camera vehicle goes over a bump. Smoke from distant fire on the horizon.
04:05:14 Further scenes of Warrior armoured vehicles in the desert on force protection duties: close-up of driver ("Thompson" written on his helmet. Various Warriors on the move and parked at roadside.
04:07:53 Convoy slows as it approaches Camp Dogwood, the Black Watch base during Operation Bracken.
04:08:07 Warriors parked at roadside; Warrior crew members wash and shave.
04:09:18 Soldiers prepare infrastructure for tented showers, digging trench and surrounding it with sandbags. Royal Engineers with earth movers carry out work on skeleton of single storey accommodation building, flattening the sand around it; woman JCB driver moves the shovel of the earth mover. Line of low loaders; US helicopters fly over US Army trucks. Further work
04:13:49 US Stryker armoured personnel carriers and crews stand by at the roadside; one drinks bottled water. Lorries (with mounted guns) on the move.
04:14:51 Rough terrain container handler moves ISO containers onto flatbed lorries.
04:18:26 Puma and Lynx helicopters take off in a flurry of sand. Line of parked Land Rovers
04:18:26 Broken tiles and other debris is shovelled out of the shell of the accommodation building
04:19:13 Sunset shot through barbed wire.
END 04:19:28
Alternative Title:HEADQUARTERS LAND COMMAND ARMY 2004 COLLECTION [Allocated Series Title]
Production Details: UK Land Media Ops (Production sponsor)
Headquarters Land Command Mobile News Team (Production company)
Brownbridge, Paul (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:
Keywords:
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: None
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: DVCPRO
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Tape length: 24; Running time: 19 mins
