Title:OPENING OF MEDICAL CENTRE AT CAMP UR, 24 SEPTEMBER 2005 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 267
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: The official opening of a new medical facility at Camp Ur, a camp purpose-built for the Iraqi Army at Tallil, near An Nasiriyah.
Description: START 00:00:00 Bars.
00:00:30 Iraqi Army medic gives a demonstration in the application of a tourniquet to fellow soldiers in a lectire room at the new facility. (Arabic.)
00:06:12 Senior Iraqi officers cut the ribbon to formally open the new facility.
00:06:52 Close-up of the goat sacrificed at the opening of the hospital; a pool of blood has poured from its slit throat.
00:07:10 Dental facility inside the medical centre; apprehensive-looking officer sits in the chair as equipment is "demonstrated" (without being turned on). Shots of the high quality equipment. (British and American voices can be heard.)
00:09:24 Tiled treatment room in trauma bay: close-ups of equipment and lamp. Sign "Trauma Bay 2". General views of the Trauma room with its various bays.
00:11:33 Interior of treatment rooms (another dental facility ?).
END 00:12:18
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 267
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2005-09-24
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 Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Camp Ur, Tallil, 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: 7 mins