Title:OPERATION AGRICOLA IV, KOSOVO, 2000-2001 (TAPE 45) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFM 426
Other titles:COLLECTION OF ROYAL MARINES TAPES [Allocated Title]
Summary: Activities of Z Company, 45 Commando Group Royal Marines and 7 (Sphinx) Battery, 29 (Commando) Regiment Royal Artillery (attached to 45 Commando Group) in Pristina, Kosovo.
Description: Members of Z Company carry out a night foot patrol in Pristina with dog handlers, passing through busy areas with shops, and also a housing estate, before returning to their base. There are also night shots from a Royal Marines vehicle, and the setting up of a temporary vehicle checkpoint.
Daylight scenes of a vehicle checkpoint in a village.
Scenes on the ground on the outskirts of Pristina; on watch is a black French soldier. A Puma helicopter flies in and lands, and members of 7 (Sphinx) Battery deplane for a patrol in the village. Patrol passes along roads and past an UNMIK sign which has been sprayed with the letters "PDK" (Democratic Party of Kosovo). Soldiers pass through the large landscaped National Liberation War Monument, commemorating the dead of the Second World War. (The monument is now in disrepair and covered in graffiti, including "Tina Te Dua!" - "Love Tina!".) Leaving the monument in the background, they walk past a series of flower-covered (Albanian) graves.
Brief interviews with two members of 10 Troop, 7 Battery: Marine Wishaw (?) and Marine Woodburn.
ROYAL MARINES VIDEO PRODUCTION UNIT SHOTSHEET
The following has been copied, without amendment, from RMVPU electronic shotsheets:
TIME DESCRIPTION
00:00 BARS
00:30 Marines outside accommodation waiting then loading their rifles
00:57 Marines and dog handlers on night patrol
01:23 Night patrol moving past camera
01:32 Traffic driving past camera on main road
01:46 Marines and dog handlers walking down pavement past shops and civvies
02:52 C/u of Marine walking past shop
02:59 Marine with traffic moving by behind him
03:07 Marine walking down street, shop and civvies
03:31 Marines walking towards camera past fruit and veg shop
03:54 Night patrol walking past large building
04:26 Night patrol walking down track metal fences either side
05:16 Marine walking past 2 stationary lorries
05:26 Night patrol walking through well lit street (looks like flats on estate)
06:11 Night patrol walking around underground (subway / car park)
06:53 Patrol walking towards camera, past buildings and cars
07:30 Patrol coming back into camp
07:53 Camera in vehicle following another vehicle around town
11:16 Marines getting into back of vehicle
11:40 Camera following front vehicle around town
12:33 Car search
15:52 Searched car trying to pull off into traffic
17:03 Driving around town looking out of rear of vehicle
17:16 Car being stopped
18:04 Car being stopped and searched people in vehicle, also searched
20:27 Vehicle entering camp
20:39 French soldier standing about and c/u of his FAMAS rifle
21:01 Shot of the land and all the houses etc in the distance
21:44 Marine with high visibility vest marshalls in Puma Helicopter
22:05 Puma comes in and lands. 7 Sphinx Bty RA patrol jump off and take up arcs
23:26 29 Regt. RA gunners walking towards camera along road
24:16 Vehicle driving through gate way
24:33 Patrol walking down road past empty houses and local people
27:03 Large sign with PDK sprayed over it
27:22 C/u of some sculpture type effort? With patrol coming into the picture
28:39 Patrol walking towards camera, with sculpture in back ground
29:25 Patrol moving through park, pans out to show flowers on war graves
31:15 Marine gives an interview
33:13 Bombardier Woodburn gives an interview
END OF TAPE
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: Royal Navy, Royal Marines, 45 Commando, Z Company (regiment/service)
British Army, Royal Artillery, 29th (Commando) Regiment, 7 (Sphinx) Commando Battery (regiment/service)
Keywords: Pristina, Kosovo (geography)
Kosovo intervention (event)
Balkans post-1991 (theme)
Royal Marines (theme)
British Army post-2000 (theme)
