Title:IRAQI PRIME MINISTER AYAD ALLAWI VISITS UMM QASR AND BASRA, SEPTEMBER 2004 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 32
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: On local election day, Iraqi Interim Prime Minister Ayad Allawi visits a polling station in Umm Qasr and the main hospital in Basra.
Description: START 00:00:00
00:00:18 Interior of polling booth: polling slips are validated and are posted into ballot boxes. Names of electors are checked against the register. Iraqi Police officer keeps watch.
00:04:29 Exterior of polling station: electors (men and women) gather to cast their votes. Groups of people talk.
00:06:45 Iraqi flag flying. Electors leave the polling station under the watchful eye of Danish soldiers.
00:07:47 Further interior views; both men and women (in burqas) are seen casting their votes.
00:14:00 Woman soldier relaxes behind the scenes, accompanied by a black dog, who plays with a plastic bottle. Small boy looks through a hole in a window pane and gives the thumbs up sign.
00:14:37 Armoured vehicles (Danish Mowag Piranhas) and Danish Military Police in Mercedes-Benz Geländewagens parked outside. Danish soldiers keep watch. (Some shaky camerawork.)
00:17:45 Further general views of the polling station buildings; children sit on walls.
00:20:55 Explosives dog walks round the grounds of the building; it has a drink of water.
00:22:28 Interior shots of the foyer of the polling station. Local men in friendly discussion with officer.
00:23:46 Incumbent Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi arrives with his entourage. He greets staff and talks with electors.
00:26:35 Press conference with Ayad Allawi; he and his entourage depart.
00:33:09 Iraqi Red Crescent ambulances parked in the grounds of Basra Hospital; shots of the grounds. Ayad Allawi and his colleagues arrive by car and are escorted into the hospital under heavy security.
00:34:57 Inside, Prime Minister Allawi meets medical staff.
END 00:37:58
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 32
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2004-09-12
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Royal Navy Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Allawi, Ayad (person)
Royal Danish Army, Danish Military Police (regiment/service)
