OPERATION AGRICOLA IV, KOSOVO, 2000-2001 (TAPE 3) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: OPERATION AGRICOLA IV, KOSOVO, 2000-2001 (TAPE 3) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: BFM 384
  • Other titles: COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
  • Summary: Royal Marines operations in Kosovo.
  • Description: Royal Marines medics visit clinics in Serbian and mixed Serbian/Albanian villages in Kosovo as part Operation Trojan, which aimed to encourage displaced Serbian Kosovans to return to their homes by offering protection and support. The Marines are also assisting local medics by providing security. Operation Trojan North: battlefield ambulances, landscape views, and derelict buildings; also formal shot of the tower at Kosovo Polje commemorating the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 (also location of Slobodan Milošević's speech on 28 June 1989). Information board gives details of Operation Trojan in Serbian. Ambulances drive through the Serbian areas, showing ruined buildings and other damage. The ambulance visits a small Serb cottage hospital. Operation Trojan South: scenes at the headquarters of the Royal Marines Commando Logistic Regiment Medical Squadron (Light Aid Detachment), where ambulances are prepared. Dentist. Drive-through of Kosovan streets following a KFOR ambulance as it visits a Serbian clinic. Marines play ball with children; one brushes up her language skills with a local man. Interview (in English) with an interpreter working for KFOR. Operation Sexton, the search for the alleged victims of genocide. Scenes at a makeshift roadside grave in Podujevo, where alleged victims of war crimes are buried. Preparation is made for exhumation of the bodies for forensic analysis (to determine cause of death): mechanical digger is unloaded. At the grave site, flowers left by well-wishers are searched, and a cadaver dog is brought in. The area is taped off. Member of the forensic team films the operations with a camcorder. ROYAL MARINES VIDEO PRODUCTION UNIT SHOTSHEET The following has been copied, without amendment, from RMVPU electronic shotsheets: TIME DESCRIPTION 00:00 BARS 00:30 W/s ambulance Land Rovers 00:36 KFOR Land Rover ambulance pan out wide to accommodation 00:55 W/s landscape 360 pan 01:53 L/s derelict building pan out from building 02:19 L/s town pan away to town and landscape 02:37 L/s tower 03:10 L/s information board 03:41 W/s buildings pans to other buildings 04:30 C/u building pan away to other building 05:02 W/s moving camera (on vehicle) buildings 06:11 L/s hospital panning towards hospital 06:29 M/s children 06:34 M/s moving camera people 08:03 L/s sign pan away to 4 tonne 08:46 L/s entrance to military camp, moving vehicles 09:32 W/s vehicles 09:54 L/s dentist pan to c/u 10:20 C/u dentist pan to l/s 10:34 L/s hospital 10:45 L/s back of ambulance surrounding area town/market 14:12 W/s ambulance, siren on then Land Rover moving across picture 14:44 L/s camera moving (on vehicle) street + houses 14:57 L/s ambulance people getting in pan to building 15:13 L/s ambulance pan onto building behind vehicle 15:32 W/s ambulance pan away to street 15:54 C/u sign pan to w/s of street and ambulance 16:16 L/s marines playing with children 16:59 L/s marines with children c/u sign – gravestone 17:30 L/s sign – gravestone pan across Land Rover to street 17:46 L/s nurse learning local language from local 18:09 W/s camera moving (on vehicle) houses 18:34 W/s Land Rover + ambulance c/u to people 19:03 M/s people queuing up pan to ma’s back to people 19:30 M/s people (locals) pan away to ma’s with locals 19:51 M/s interviewing local with Land Rover ambulance background 25:01 W/s convoy – many UN + KFOR Land Rovers and one 4 tonne 25:52 W/s convoy parked locals watching 26:19 Military digger unloading from 8 tonne 27:08 C/u diggers tracks pan away digger drives off 27:49 W/s ma’s in back of 4 tonne 28:37 L/s tools (spades) on stretcher pan away to personnel 28:52 L/s military personnel and dog searching around flowers 31:56 L/s people filming/pictures of flowers in graveyard 33:15 B/cu piece of blank paper 33:30 L/s people around convoy taking off forensic suits 33:51 L/s people searching flowers and ground around it
  • Alternative Title: COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
  • Colour: Colour
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  • Object_Number: BFM 384
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © Crown copyright. IWM (BFM 384)
  • Featured Period: 2001-2025
  • Production Date: 2000-08-12 2000-08-14
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Royal Marines Video Production Unit (Production company) Martin, Jim (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Commando Logistics Regiment, Medical Squadron (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: kosovo (geography) Kosovo Polje, Kosovo (geography) Kosovo intervention (event) Balkans post-1991 (theme) Royal Marines (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: Beta-SP Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Tape length: 30; Running time: 33 mins
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