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
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])