Title:SCENES AT CAMP BASTION, AFGHANISTAN, 7 OCTOBER 2008 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFM 338
Other titles:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
Summary: Helicopter activities at Camp Bastion.
Description: Preparation of Lynx: GPMG (general purpose machine gun) is loaded, pre-flight checks are carried out. Views on board the helicopter as it takes off (cockpit shots) and flies over Camp Bastion. Aerial shots of the camp complex and the surrounding desert. Door gunner on Lynx: close-ups of GMPG, which is seen being test-fired over the desert. Second Lynx flies past. Aerial views over Camp Bastion as the Lynx comes in to land. Ground views of Lynx, Puma, Chinook and Apache helicopters.
ROYAL MARINES VIDEO PRODUCTION UNIT SHOTSHEET
The following has been copied, without amendment, from RMVPU electronic shotsheets:
Time Code Description
00:00 Bars
00:30 GPMG getting loaded with ammo, lynx static
00:41 Take off “lynx” patrolling out of camp bastion
01:37 Gunner of lynx
03:43 Gunner of lynx starts to fire bursts of rounds
04:51 Approaching lynx going back to camp bastion on the right-hand side
05:38 Circling around camp bastion then landing
06:27 Another lynx landing at camp bastion also apachie
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Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
Production Details: Royal Marines Video Production Unit (Production company)
Hewitt, Mark (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Camp Bastion, Helmand, Afghanistan (geography)
British Operations in Afghanistan from 2002 (event)
British Army post-2000 (theme)
Afghanistan post-2001 (theme)
