FLEET COMBAT CAMERA TEAM (FCCT) TAPE 21 [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: FLEET COMBAT CAMERA TEAM (FCCT) TAPE 21 [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: BFV 150
  • Other titles: BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2003 [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: British troops seize smuggled copper in Al-Amarah. Minister of State for the Armed Forces Adam Ingram MP and his shadow opposite number Nicholas Soames MP visit Basra, ca 19 December. Chinook helicopters at Basra.
  • Description: START 00:00:00 Bars. 00:00:41 Troops embark onto Chinook helicopter which takes off. Views of interior during flight and of marshy Iraqi landscape below. One of the soldiers on board films with a camcorder. 00:06:49 View from top of a moving Land Rover driving through Al-Amarah. Helicopter flies overhead. Waste site near Al-Amarah: soldier (1st Battalion the Light Infantry) discusses illegal copper seizure. Behind him is a pile of seized copper ingots. 00:15:00 Close-ups of piles of seized copper and cable; soldiers sort through the haul and add to it, passing the ingots from the back of a Land Rover. 00:17:22 Interview with woman soldier (Adjutant General's Corps cap badge). 00:19:46 Second interview with soldier from 1st Battalion the Light Infantry. 00:21:37 Inspection of copper smelting pans and further shots of the pile of ingots. 00:23:31 Arrival of Minister of State for the Armed Forces Adam Ingram MP and his shadow opposite number Nicholas Soames MP at Basra Air Station. 00:24:57 Battlegroup Headquarters of 1st Battalion the Light Infantry sign. 00:25:13 Two Chinooks on helipad. Interior of Chinook: soldiers settle down. Helicopter takes off; aerial views and shots on board (cockpit, door gunner). Landscape (and coast) of southern Iraq passes below. 00:33:16 Aerial views of approach and landing at Basra Air Station. 00:34:56 Chinook on apron at Basra; it takes off and flies away. 00:36:05 Further close-up shots of stolen copper. END 00:37:33
  • Alternative Title: BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2003 [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: Colour
  • Digitised:
  • Object_Number: BFV 150
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM
  • Featured Period:
  • Production Date: 2003-12-09 2003-12-19
  • Production Country: GB
  • Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Fleet Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
  • Personalities, Units and Organisations: Ingram, Adam Paterson (person) Soames, Nicholas (person) British Army, 1st Battalion, Light Infantry (regiment/service) British Army, Adjutant General's Corps (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Al-Amarah, Iraq (geography) Basra International Airport, Basra, 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: Mini-DV Number of items/reels/tapes: 1 Tape length: 63; Running time: 37 mins
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  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    BFV 150

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    BFV 142 (FLEET COMBAT CAMERA TEAM (FCCT) TAPE 13 [Allocated Title]) BFV 114 (SEIZURE OF SMUGGLED COPPER BY BRITISH TROOPS, AL-AMARAH, IRAQ [Allocated Title])
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