Title:FLEET COMBAT CAMERA TEAM (FCCT) TAPE 27 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 156
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2003 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Further coverage of the graduation ceremony for new members of the Iraqi Riverine Patrol Service (IRPS).
Description: START 00:00:00 Continuation of Sir Hilary Synnott's speech from previous tape.
00:04:00 Close-ups of plaques, which are to be given to guests at the ceremony.
00:04:15 Graduates in assault boats on the Shatt al-Arab give a display for the watching dignitaries.
00:07:22 Graduation: the new graduates are handed their certificates by senior British Army officer. Plaques are handed out to seated guests, the ceremony ends and the spectators disperse..
00:12:30 Inspection of the IRPS's small assault boats by dignitaries and their children.
00:16:59 British large support boat, accompanied by two rigid raiders, arrives to pick up dignitaries. They get on board and the vessels head back to Basra Palace. Various shots of rigid raiders and of the riverside.
00:30:44 River shots taken using blue filter.
END 00:34:09
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2003 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 156
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
