Title:OPERATION AGRICOLA IV, KOSOVO, 2000-2001 (TAPE 10) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFM 391
Other titles:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
Summary: The Royal Marines in Kosovo.
Description: Royal Marines patrol in Serbian villages, distributing the KFOR Serbian-language newspaper "ТЕДЕГРАФ" ("Telegraf") to local people. They are accompanied by a female interpreter in an orange sleeveless top. They stop at a village house for coffee and talk informally with the woman occupant, who speaks very good English.
Further workshop scenes: captured weapons are rendered unusable.
Members of X Company patrol in Pristina. At a block of flats, local police arrest a smartly dressed man and take him into custody. Patrol continues by a row of shops and back to base.
The unfinished Serbian Orthodox Church of Christ the Saviour in Pristina, currently under the protection of British forces (who have a tent erected inside the church's interior and an unloading bay in the porch).
Royal Marines guard the entrances to the YU Project in Ulpiana, Pristina, a Serbian enclave. Nearby is a pillbox made of sandbags where another Marine keeps watch; a UN Police vehicle drives past.
ROYAL MARINES VIDEO PRODUCTION UNIT SHOTSHEET
The following has been copied, without amendment, from RMVPU electronic shotsheets:
TIME DESCRIPTION
00:00 BARS
00:30 L/s buildings pan away to patrol with civilian interpreter
01:38 W/s following patrol around – patrol with a civilian interpreter
03:27 W/s buildings pan away to patrol with civilian interpreter
04:36 W/s patrol with civilian interpreter
05:21 W/s patrol halted on road vehicle and civvies go past
07:11 W/s patrol going down path
07:34 L/s patrol with civvies and interpreter
09:34 W/s patrol halted on path
09:53 M/s man with rifle
12:38 M/s 4 men with rifles
13:04 W/s building pan away to marines with civvies
14:13 W/s building pan away to marines with civvies
14:43 W/s building pan away to marines searching civvies
16:02 W/s marines and local police taking away prisoner
16:33 W/s marines patrolling
16:46 W/s marines patrolling (x coy 45 com) back to base
19:45 C/u crucifix pan away to rest of building (church)
20:33 L/s British flag pan away to church
20:52 L/s ceiling of church pan to military tent in church
21:24 W/s British flag, buildings – sun glaring in background
21:37 W/s entrance to building – marine doing Normal Safety Precautions and going in
22:35 W/s marine at entrance to building pan away to rest of building
22:58 W/s entrance to building civvies and marines going in and out
23:46 L/s looking from entrance of building marines at entrance
24:22 W/s marine guarding outside of pillbox
25:25 W/s looking from inside pillbox to surrounding area (buildings)
26:30 M/cu LSW gunner inside pillbox pan away to area he can see
27:32 End of tape
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
