Description: START 00:00:00 Bars.
00:00:45 Soldiers consult map before preparing Land Rover. Close-up of "Mines" sign on bumper of Land Rover. General views of preparation: kitting up and squad briefing.
00:06:04 Land Rovers with trailers set off from Shaibah Logistics Base: views on the road from moving vehicle as it passes through the town.
00:07:12 Arrival at site (ruined building). Local man takes the EOD team to the location of the unexploded ordnance (a cluster of various, old, mortars and bomblets). Crew inspects them and sorts through the pile. Local men watch.
00:12:13 Trailer; the EOD team work together to remove the ordnance and carefully place it in the back of the trailer attached to one of the Land Rovers.
00:19:39 Local children and youths have gathered; members of the team mix with them informally.
00:19:50 Interview with member of the EOD team.
00:22:46 EOD Land Rovers at open range; a pit has been dug in the ground. Large crater in the ground indicates the place where a previous batch of ordnance had been exploded. The latest batch is then prepared, placed in lines according to type. Still photographer takes shots. Close-ups of the lines of ordnance as they are prepared with fuse wire and PE4 explosive and detonator blocks.
00:35:27 Interview with EOD team member.
00:37:57 Land Rovers drive along range road to a safe distance.
00:38:42 Extreme long shot of the detonation of the ordnance in a large controlled explosion.
00:38:59 Soldier returns to the detonation site to check that all the ordnance has been destroyed.
END 00:39:34
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 166
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2004-01-08
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Fleet Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Engineers (regiment/service)
Keywords: Shaibah, 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: 39 mins
