Title:VILLAGE FOOTAGE, AUGUST 2005 (UNEDITED) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 232
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Views in a remote, unnamed Iraqi village near the marshes where an attack is alleged to have taken place.
Description: START 00:00:15 Black screen followed by bars.
00:00:40 Country road leading into the distance showing barren Iraqi landscape - 360 degree pan of the surrounding area.
00:01:22 TIMECODE RESET.
00:07:21 Colour bars.
00:07:42 Drive-through of country road; buildings visible on the right hand side. Warrior vehicle brings up the rear as the convoy passes through checkpoint. On-board shots of Warrior and its crew.
00:10:47 Slow 360 degree pan of road (same position as first shot). Camera then moves towards (distant) village, with occasional pans from side to side - at one point an accompanying still photographer (in camouflage) can be seen. Warrior armoured vehicle is passed.
00:18:24 Cameraman stops at turn-off road to village, where he makes another 360 degree pan before walking to the head of the village. (By this time a crowd of children has gathered.) Walk around the outskirts of the village past Warrior (1st Battalion the Staffordshire Regiment).
00:22:34 Another 360 degree pan, this time at the top of the village near remnants of marshes. Children have gathered once again.
00:24:40 Further panning shots of the village and of the alleged attack location; by this point, a large crowd (adults and children) are thronging around the cameraman.
END 00:27:06
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 232
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2005-08-04
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Royal Navy Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
McIvor, Mac (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Staffordshire Regiment (Prince of Wales's), 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
Keywords: 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: 21 mins
