Title:OPERATION AGRICOLA IV, KOSOVO, 2000-2001 (TAPE 9) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFM 390
Other titles:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
Summary: The Royal Marines in Kosovo.
Description: At Paveway Lines (?), a mobile crane operated by a Royal Marine lifts an ISO container.
Marines unload black bags from the ISO container and open them, revealing a selection of rifles (mainly AK-47s); these are laid out and checked, and their serial numbers are recorded. One has UCK (Ushtria Çlirimtare e Kosovës, the Kosovo Liberation Army) painted on its stock. Another is inscribed "SYLEJMAN JASHARI V-L-23-1-1980 PRAPASHTICA". (Possibly a memorial inscription: a soldier of this name from the Kosovo Liberation Army, born in 1980 and from the village of Prapashtica, had been killed by Serb forces during the Kosovo conflict.)
Views from the rear of a moving vehicle in the countryside outside Pristina. As the vehicle approaches the town, camera is aimed forward: a road sign is visible saying "Prishtinë Pristina": the spelling "Pristina" has been partially obscured by blue spray paint, probably by Albanians ("Pristina" is the transliteration of the Serbian spelling of the name).
In a workshop, a Royal Marine renders captured weapons (as seen above) unusable.
ISO containers are moved by train to a railhead where they are removed using forklift trucks.
ROYAL MARINES VIDEO PRODUCTION UNIT SHOTSHEET
The following has been copied, without amendment, from RMVPU electronic shotsheets:
TIME DESCRIPTION
00:00 BARS
00:18 KFOR crane
00:39 C/u RM operating crane, pan out to crane lifting large metal container
01:22 Crane being operated
01:54 Crane lowering large metal container
02:07 C/u on cable reel on crane, pan out to see crane
02:19 Hook connecting crane and container, pan out to see crane
03:16 Footage of soldiers working on crane
03:49 RM operating crane
Break in time code
00:00 Black bags (containing weapon’s) being unloaded from metal container
00:34 Weapon’s being taken out of bags and lined out
00:55 C/u of weapon’s laid out and soldiers checking over some rifles
04:20 Weapon serial no being logged
04:41 C/u on weapon’s
04:52 C/u on weapon’s barrels
05:25 Close shots of weapon’s laid out panning up and down the line
06:16 C/u on rifle butt with writing on it, pan out to show all weapons in a line
06:33 Weapons being loaded back into container
07:09 Footage of all weapons in container
08:16 Camera filming out of back of vehicle along main road
10:57 C/u of Pristina road sign, pan out to show traffic on road
11:39 Camera filming out of front of vehicle driving along main road towards the city
12:35 Inside armouries work shop / RM using machines (making weapons un-useable)
14:07 RM sawing something in a vice
14:17 RM making AK type weapons un-usable
17:01 Large metal containers being railed towards camera
18:10 C/u on rail tracks and wheels pan out to see containers moving away from camera
19:01 L/r of containers along rail road
19:22 KFOR fork lift un-loading containers
22:05 KFOR fork lift unloading containers and c/u on driver operating controls
24:41 END OF TAPE
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
