Title:FLEET COMBAT CAMERA TEAM (FCCT) TAPE 26 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 155
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2003 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Scenes in and around Basra, including coverage of the graduation ceremony for new members of the Iraqi Riverine Patrol Service (IRPS).
Description: START 25:59:55 Bars.
00:01:00 Armoured vehicle crews in the desert; they pose (some wearing tinsel and Santa Claus hats) for still photographer and for television news crew.
00:05:45 British army river patrol taken from assault boat on the Shatt al-Arab near their Basra Palace base travelling along the Shatt past the dock area.
00:12:59 New members of the Iraqi Riverine Patrol Service (IRPS), 22 December 2003 gather at Basra dockside for their graduation ceremony. Banner on crane reads "IRPS celebrate today 22nd Deceber [sic] 2003 in graduation of second league of ther members, the confidantial guards to protect our interior waters. Welcome to our guests". Many informal shots before the ceremony itself.
00:19:36 IRPS members march off. Beside the Shatt al-Arab, several of them stand wearing red life jackets. British army assault boat with accompanying rigid raiders arrive at dockside; British dignitaries (civil and military) climb ashore and greet Iraqi officers. General scenes with British officers and dignitaries, including interviews, followed by extracts of the ceremony itself, including speech by Sir Hilary Synnott, regional coordinator for the Coalition Provisional Authority (abrupt end mid-speech).
END 00:35:04
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2003 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 155
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2003-12-22
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Fleet Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Synott, Hilary Nicholas Hugh (person)
British Army (regiment/service)
Iraqi Riverine Patrol Service (regiment/service)
Keywords: Basra, Iraq (geography)
Shatt al-Arab, 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: 34 mins
