Title:OPERATION AGRICOLA IV, KOSOVO, 2000-2001 (TAPE 22) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFM 403
Other titles:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
Summary: KFOR activities in Serb areas of Kosovo.
Description: Brief views of a KFOR checkpoint in Gračanica.
Quarry in Kosovo, where large earth movers excavate gravel and place it in the back of tipper trucks to be used in road building.
Coaches, accompanied by British Land Rovers, pull up outside the YU Project in Ulpiana, Pristina (a Serb enclave): local people get on board.
Preoce: goods train travels along railway line (EMD G16 locomotive has "NATO" and "KFOR" markings). PVCP (permanent vehicle checkpoint) with guard tower. Road building scenes: trucks full of gravel (presumably extracted from the quarry seen earlier) are kept under guard.
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 house pan away to road
00:57 L/s soldier @ checkpoint stopping some cars
01:21 Back of a van? Camera moving around
01:51 W/s diggers in quarry moving of gravel etc
11:34 L/s women c/u on their arses
12:36 W/s Land Rover and coach pull up people get on coach, drive off
13:57 L/s house pan to ducks camera follows ducks
14:26 W/s road some vehicles go past
14:43 W/s train going along railway
15:31 W/s tower guardhouse sited at road barriers
17:40 W/s trucks filled with gravel building road guarded by soldiers
21:13 END OF TAPE
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
