OPERATION AGRICOLA IV, KOSOVO, 2000-2001 (TAPE 15) [Allocated Title]

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  • 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]
  • Colour: Colour
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  • Object_Number: BFM 396
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM Attribution: © Crown copyright. IWM (BFM 396)
  • Featured Period: 2001-2025
  • Production Date: 2000-09-26
  • Production Country: GB
  • 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)
  • 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: 34 mins
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