Title:AMBULANCE SERVICE AT THE PJOC (PROVINCIAL JOINT OPERATIONS CENTRE), BASRA, 6 SEPTEMBER 2005 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 249
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Medical centre at the Basra PJOC, with ambulance crews.
Description: START 00:00:00 Bars.
00:00:31 Interview (largely in Arabic) with official from the ambulance service (who did not want to be filmed, therefore image is of the wall of the office).
00:05:39 Ambulance dispatcher uses radio system.
00:07:26 Medical training of ambulance service members, including checking for signs of life. Various items of emergency medical equipment are displayed.
00:09:23 Outside, an ambulance with its Iraqi crew waits with doors open. A mock emergency scenario is played out: a collapsed man is given CPR, his leg is bound, he is loaded onto a stretcher and taken away in the ambulance. Shots of the ambulance, with sirens blazing, returning to the PJOC.
00:14:34 Close-up of Red Crescent on ambulance.
END 00:15:18
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 249
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2005-09-06
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: Iraqi Ambulance Service (regiment/service)
Keywords: 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: 9 mins
