Title:VEHICLES OF 4TH ARMOURED BRIGADE DEPART BASRA IN CONVOY, 27 APRIL 2005 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 177
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Vehicles of 4th Armoured Brigade leave Multi-National Detachment (South East) headquarters at Basra Air Station.
Description: START 00:00:00 Bars.
00:00:47 Wide shot of convoy (mainly camouflaged Land Rovers) before the move. Cut-in shots of activities as the convoy waits to depart; soldiers talk among themselves.
00:02:57 View through Land Rover windscreen as it drives through the main gate.
00:04:46 Sign "Basrah International Airport". Second Land Rover convoy (not in desert camouflage) leave the air station.
00:06:09 Iraqi guard at gate; after the last vehicle has left, he stretches a Stinger (a metal strip laced with spikes) across the entrance. Close-up of his arm band with letters BIABP (Basra International Airport Boundary Patrol ?).
00:06:43 TIMECODE RESET.
00:00:00 Iraqi Guard watches and salutes as a convoy drives past. Further views of the main gate at Basra Air Station and of vehicle movements (including a supply convoy of Bedford trucks).
END 00:03:56
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 177
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2005-04-27
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Royal Navy Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
Rose (POA [Phot]) (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, 4th Armoured Brigade (regiment/service)
Keywords: 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: DVCam
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Tape length: 40; Running time: 10 mins
