Title:OPERATION AGRICOLA IV, KOSOVO, 2000-2001 (TAPE 11) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFM 392
Other titles:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
Summary: The Royal Marines in Kosovo: 3 Commando Headquarters, and reconstruction work in Gračanica.
Description: Scenes at 3 Commando Brigades headquarters at Slim Lines near Pristina: sign at main gate reads "Op Agricola 4 Multinational Brigade Centre 3 Commando Brigade Headquarters and Signal Squadron Royal Marines". Puma helicopter arrives and takes a platoon of Royal Marines to Slivovo. Patrol through the town, past derelict buildings; lengthy shot of surrounding valley. Rural patrol by Marines on the backs of ponies. Royal Marines (with assistance from a Swedish soldier) help to fit windows into houses under reconstruction in Slivovo.
Interview (in English) with Giulia Fantera (?), a representative of the independent Italian non-governmental organisation Cesvi, discusses their role in aiding the Serbs to return to their old homes. The name Cesvi is derived from the italian words "cooperazione e sviluppo" (cooperation and development).
Checkpoint and vehicle park surrounded by freshly-dug ditch.
Newly-renovated Serbian school in Gračanica. Work continues outside, but the school is thronging with children. Interview with Captain Stiv Erkin (?) of SWEBAT, the KFOR Swedish Battalion.
Brief views of the Serbian Orthodox Gračanica Monastery (the Holy Virgin's Temple).
Exterior view of ambulance station in Gračanica.
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 marine guarding outside 3 Commando Brigade HQ and Sigs
00:44 W/s sign – 3 Commando Brigade HQ and Sigs pan away to guard and Land Rover
01:16 L/s guard – ranks in civvies walk past guard
01:35 W/s puma landing, marines board, and takes off
03:38 W/s 2 man patrol and dog walk through gap in wall
04:51 W/s town pan away to 2 man patrol
05:53 W/s 2 man patrol walk into derelict building
06:52 W/s pan to buildings in valley
11:51 W/s pony patrol
14:43 L/s building
15:00 L/s civvies fixing window pan away to all of building
15:21 L/s civvies fixing window camera inside building
16:12 Ranks (1swedish) talking about windows in buildings
17:15 W/s ranks helped by civvies carrying window to building
19:08 L/s rank talking with civvies about training them up – police
21:03 Break in t/c
00:00 M/s interview with Italian – restoring villages
04:16 W/s KFOR truck driving through checkpoint
04:32 W/s check point pan in to engineers pan back out
04:57 W/s engineers jumping gutter
05:15 W/s civilians mostly children walking around town
07:05 M/s interview with civilian children walking behind him
09:26 W/s inside school camera looking around hall
09:44 W/s children in class waving at end
10:38 W/s looking at entrance of building
11:22 C/u spire pan to rest of church some people going in
12:26 W/s blue and white building (Ambulanta at Gracanica)
13:07 End of tape
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
