Title:RAF REGIMENT ON PATROL IN BASRA, 8 AUGUST 2004 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 8
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: On patrol, members of the RAF Regiment visit the Attuba Nukhela School and a second school at old airport camp in Basra, both under reconstruction.
Description: START 00:00:00 Bars.
00:00:30 Shots of Attuba Nukhela school, which is being rebuilt; the grounds are filled with building materials. Interior shots show empty rooms, with much work still to be done. Local Iraqi men clear rubble and dig over the ground in the courtyard.
00:03:30 Electricians at work rewiring the interior.
00:04:54 RAF Regiment patrol visits the school and pose in the courtyard with the workmen, followed by the patrol walking through the buildings and exterior of school.
00:05:38 RAF Regiment on streets in Basra. Soldier knocks on the the gates of a second school, and the patrol is admitted.
00:07:05 Inside the school grounds, where reconstruction and redecoration are taking place. Patrol talks with local man and inspects the interior of the school, including a classrooms. School grounds and play area; cartoon characters (Snow White, Tom and Jerry) are painted on the outside wall. Door marked "Kindergarten".
00:11:28 Street patrol continues, past drainage culverts. Members of a local family give the thumbs up sign to the patrolmen. Small boy inspects the camera and looks through the sight of an SA80 gun.
END 00:14:05
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 8
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2004-08-08
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: Royal Air Force, RAF Regiment (regiment/service)
Keywords: Attuba Nukhela School, Basra, Iraq (geography)
Operation Telic, Iraq War 2003-2009 (event)
Royal Air Force 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: 14 mins
