OPERATION BLACK VIPER 2, BASRA, 26 NOVEMBER 2007 (TAPE 1) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: OPERATION BLACK VIPER 2, BASRA, 26 NOVEMBER 2007 (TAPE 1) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: BFV 1065
  • Other titles: COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Members of 34 Squadron the RAF Regiment on patrol on the streets of Basra.
  • Description: I. Informal interview with British soldier in office (includes swearing and rude gestures). II. General views of patrol through a village outside Basra, shot using an image intensifier. Mastiff armoured vehicle is parked by the roadside while a search is made (on foot) of the roadside for possible improvised explosive devices. III. Daylight shots of foot patrol on the outside of a village; the terrain around the houses is very bumpy. Tactics are discussed. Soldier (Captain Lorna Ward of the Combat Camera Team) advances. General patrol shots through village and past derelict railway line; there are small lineside fires. A suspect vehicle with tinted windows is searched and photographed. Flight Lieutenant May talks with Captain Lorna Ward about the patrol; CCT stills cameraman takes photographs as the patrol continues through the (nearly deserted) village and its outskirts. Patrol continues; CCT cameramen take photographs. Further shots of Mastiff armoured vehicle as patrol members get back on board; scenes inside the Mastiff (more photographs taken. Mastiff patrol on desert road (Coalition and civilian vehicles pass). Snap vehicle checkpoint.
  • Alternative Title: COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: Colour
  • Digitised:
  • Object_Number: BFV 1065
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM
  • Featured Period: 2001-2025
  • Production Date: 2007-11-26
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production company) Holmes, Andy (Corporal, RAF) (Production individual)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: May (Flight Lieutenant) (person) Ward, Lorna (person) Royal Air Force, RAF Regiment, 34 Squadron (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Royal Air Force post-2000 (theme) Iraq post-2003 (theme)
  • Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour Sound format: Sound Soundtrack language: English
  • Technical Details: Format: DVCam Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Tape length: 40; Running time: 30 mins
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    BFV 1065

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    BFV 1066 (OPERATION BLACK VIPER 2, BASRA, 26 NOVEMBER 2007 (TAPE 2) [Allocated Title]) BFV 1067 (OPERATION BLACK VIPER 2, BASRA, 26 NOVEMBER 2007 (TAPE 3) [Allocated Title])
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