Title:OPERATION CITADEL, IRAQ, 21 JULY 2005 (MASTER EDIT) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 219
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Scenes from Operation Citadel, a small scale search and arrest operation on a target house in Basra. It takes place at night, and is largely shot using an image intensifier.
Description: Image intensifier shots: section commander describes the preparation. Vehicles set off (view from top cover and inside Snatch Land Rover). Camera view switches to full colour as the soldiers search the house, the interior of which is spacious, well-furnished and in good decorative order. Paperwork is discussed with interpreter. Occupant, a middle-aged man sitting cross-legged on the floor, is questioned with the aid of an interpreter. Paperwork is filled in. Exterior of the house (image intensifier: soldiers and vehicles (Saxon. Land Rovers) in the street outside. Car is searched. Arrestee (not the man seen earlier) is led from the house, his hands tied, and placed in the back of a Snatch Land Rover. Convoy drives away.
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 219
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2005-07-21
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Royal Navy Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: 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: 4 mins
