Title:EXPLOSIVE ORDNANCE DISPOSAL (EOD) AT RUMAILA, IRAQ (ORIGINAL) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 3
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: At an abandoned weapons site in the desert, unexploded ordnance is sorted and prepared for detonation by members of the Iraqi National Guard (ING).
Description: START 00:00:00 Bars.
00:01:00 Views of unsorted ordnance of various types, most of which is in a very poor state. Soldier checks through some of the decaying shells. Close-ups of shells; British Army photographer takes shots.
00:03:27 EOD team from the Iraqi Civil Defence Corps approaches in pick-up trucks (long shot)
00:04:58 The team arrives at the weapons site and inspect the ammunition.
00:05:29 Further unexploded bombs are unloaded from a truck and sorted into piles. (Cut-ins of truck at 00:07:02 show signs "ICDC" and "EOD QRT"). Ordnance is gathered together, overseen by British soldiers. Mines are prepared. (Brief close-up of 70th Brigade shoulder flash).
00:11:34 Fuse wire is laid around the piles of ordnance. Iraqis prepare PE4 explosive by moulding it into balls and attaching it to mines on the top of the piles. Fuse wire is attached.
00:19:00 ING members pose for photograph (taken by British Army photographer) by the stacks of ordnance.
00:19:46 Personnel leave the site prior to detonation and reassemble on a road a long distance away.
00:21:19 Final discussions and preparations are made. Transmitter is tested. British woman soldier prepares to press the button
00:23:55 Ordnance is detonated; large explosion on the horizon. Posed shots of woman with detonation transmitter.
END 00:24:45
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 3
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2004-07-26
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Royal Navy Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
Gedge, Andy (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service)
Iraqi National Guard, 70th Brigade (regiment/service)
Keywords: Rumaila, Iraq (geography)
Operation Telic, Iraq War 2003-2009 (event)
British Army post-2000 (theme)
Iraq post-2003 (theme)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: None
Subtitle language: None
Technical Details: Format: DVCam
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Tape length: 40; Running time: 24 mins
