Title:OPERATION AGRICOLA IV, KOSOVO, 2000-2001 (TAPE 15) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFM 396
Other titles:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
Summary: Members of 3 Commando's Medical Squadron and Z Company, 45 Commando, in Kosovo.
Description: The Medical Squadron sets up a field dressing station near Podujevo; the station is contructed of interlocking tents held up by inflatable curved tubes and is secured to the ground by guy ropes. After the tented complex is erected, stores are unloaded from a 4-tonne lorry and taken inside the (quite spacious) tent. Electrics and support struts are put into position.
Z ("Zulu") Company, 45 Commando, house (Presevo ?). Three members of the company go on foot patrol with an interpreter along village roads, passing a group of aggressive geese and talking to a local woman who had been shot some time ago. View from back of moving vehicle as KFOR vehicle makes its way along country roads, followed by further foot patrol scenes.
Z Company set up a vehicle checkpoint (VCP) on the outskirts of Pristina; in the background, reconstruction of buildings is taking place. Cars are also stopped inside the town. Oxfam Land Rover drives past.
Brief views of control room with wall map.
ROYAL MARINES VIDEO PRODUCTION UNIT SHOTSHEET
The following has been copied, without amendment, from RMVPU electronic shotsheets:
TIME DESCRIPTION
00:00 BARS
00:30 Soldiers and medics setting up field hospital and marking ground out
02:04 Tent being inflated
02:30 Tent being sorted and pegs being hammered in
03:01 Tents getting inflated people waiting to put pegs in ground
03:51 Close shot of soldiers putting air hose into tent, zoom in on hose connection, zoom out to see cap put on tent valve
04:13 Pegs being put in and tent getting put up
05:43 Close shot of RN commando talking to another, tents going up behind them
06:15 Pegs going in and a hammer head fly’s off scaring one of the lads
06:40 C/u of air hose connected to tent
06:58 Stores coming off 4 tonner and being put into tents
09:11 INSIDE TENT STORES BEING PUT IN CORRECT PLACES AND WIRES BEING SORTED OUT, TABLES, STUFF etc
13:40 Z coy sign, Royal Marines come into shot and 1 man in civvies gets on KFOR vehicle and drive off
14:44 Royal Marine patrol coming down small road past camera
15:30 Royal Marine patrol walking past geese making lots of noise
15:59 C/u of geese
16:10 Patrol and guide talking to local old lady, she says she was shot at a while ago
17:28 Patrol coming down road and past camera
18:13 Camera filming out of the back of a vehicle driving through small roads and tracks
19:40 Cameras vehicle over takes another KFOR vehicle and films it following them
21:25 Patrol moving along road towards camera through village
26:50 Patrol coming out from behind 45 Cdo z coy sign and move along road and path
28:15 Patrol move along road and then pull a car over and check drivers details
30:03 Patrol call a small van over and check drivers details
31:31 Patrol moving through town
32:35 Patrol searching a car
33:59 C/u of map on wall zoom out to show inside control room
34:26 END OF TAPE
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
Production Details: Royal Marines Video Production Unit (Production company)
Martin, Jim (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Royal Navy, Royal Marines, Medical Squadron (regiment/service)
Royal Navy, Royal Marines, 45 Commando, Z Company (regiment/service)
Keywords: Podujevo, Kosovo (geography)
Pristina, Kosovo (geography)
Kosovo intervention (event)
Balkans post-1991 (theme)
Royal Marines (theme)
