Title:OPERATION AGRICOLA IV, KOSOVO, 2000-2001 (TAPE 30) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFM 411
Other titles:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
Summary: Members of 45 Commando Group Royal Marines and other members of KFOR provide security during the municipal elections in Kosovo.
Description: Election security operations: soldier keeps guard at the entrance gate to Pristina's industrial centre. Sign above the gate says, in Albanian, "Industria e Mtellit Bukeš Dhe Embelsirave, Kosovarja, Zona Industrial Prishtine". This is the location of the OSCE (Organisation for Security and Cooperation in Europe) vote counting centre; OSCE vehicles enter the area.
Members of X Company, 45 Commando, patrol on foot in the centre of Pristina; also seens are Warrior armoured vehicles of 1st Battalion the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment.
Scenes in Lipljan, where FINBAT (the non-NATO Finnish Battalion in KFOR) has its area of responsibility. Sentry and armoured vehicles outside OSCE headquarters. BV 206 vehicles in an ambulance role (with Red Crosses) can also be seen.
Puma helicopter lands and picks up members of SWEBAT (NATO's Swedish Battalion) at Multi-National Brigade (Centre) headquarters. Swedish soldiers move forward and climb on board; the helicopter takes off.
Brigadier Robert Fry RM, commander of MNB(C), discusses the brigade's involvement in monitoring the municipal elections.
ROYAL MARINES VIDEO PRODUCTION UNIT SHOTSHEET
The following has been copied, without amendment, from RMVPU electronic shotsheets:
TIME DESCRIPTION
00:00 BARS
00:30 BRIGADIER ENTERING THROUGH MAIN GATE
02:27 CIVIS SITING IN MAIN HALL
03:54 RM STANDING OUTSIDE 45 COY LINES
05:02 PATROL COMING OUT OF ALLEY WAY VARIOUS SHOTS
08:25 SHOTS OF TANKS AND CIVIS OUTSIDE A BUILDING
12:52 POLICE IN WITH THE CROWD
14:08 SHOT OF RED CROSS BVS
14:16 HELO LANDING
17:51 SWEDISH SOLDIERS IN KNEELING POSITON
18:36 HELO PREPARING FOR TAKE OFF AND TAKING OFF
23:08 BRIGADIER GIVES AN INTERVIEW
ENDS
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
Production Details: Royal Marines Video Production Unit (Production company)
Kukor Morgan, Lee (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Fry, Robert Alan (person)
Royal Navy, Royal Marines, 45 Commando, X Company (regiment/service)
Finnish Army (regiment/service)
SWEDISH ARMY (regiment/service)
Organisation for Security and Co-Operation in Europe (institution)
Keywords: Pristina, Kosovo (geography)
Lipljan, Kosovo (geography)
Kosovo intervention (event)
Balkans post-1991 (theme)
Royal Marines (theme)
