MEDICAL FACILITIES AT SHAIBAH LOGISTICS BASE, OCTOBER 2005 (TAPE 1) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: MEDICAL FACILITIES AT SHAIBAH LOGISTICS BASE, OCTOBER 2005 (TAPE 1) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: BFV 269
  • Other titles: BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: Scenes at the Primary Healthcare Centre based at Shaibah Logistics Base.
  • Description: START 00:00:00 Bars. 00:00:30 Interior of "C Stores": stock is checked in the various plastic containers. Supplies and medicines are issued from stock. Stock clerk (army) inspect contents; one carries a file labelled "ISO WD 2 REPLEN LIST UK MED GROUP". Medicines (including penicillin) are collected for dispensing. 00:06:37 Exterior of facility (surrounded by concrete bunker). Medical orderlies (in desert uniform) walk torwards the camera. They enter medical store (several takes). Sign on door reads "MED STORES ISO 1 25-Aug-95". (ISO refers to the fact that the stores are still being stored in the ISO containers that they were originally shipped in.) 00:09:07 View through open rear doors of ambulance, showing the facilities available in the vehicle. Further exterior and interior views (it is a battlefield ambulance). Close-ups of resuscitation equipment. Exterior views with close-up of Red Cross. 00:13:07 "Blue Light Matrix" ambulance crews relax in rest room (no sound). Close-up of gun racks. Close-up of BLM ("Blue Light Matrix") Red Cross. Crews scramble and put on their gear ready for call-out, then pick up their personal weapons before leaving. 00:16:18 Further rest room scenes (still without sound). Team scrambles for a call-out as before. 00:18:00 Ambulance parked outside concrete barriers; BLM team deploys accompanied by two Snatch Land Rovers. (Two takes, with sound.) Shaky shots of exterior of facilities (poor). Close-ups of ambulances and Land Rovers, which drive off (on either side of the camera). 00:26:48 Interview with Major Mark Thorpe, senior medical officer at the Primary Healthcare Centre at Shaibah Logistics Base; topics include the drawbacks of using tented facilities (including confidentiality; voices can travel very easily through the tented walls). 00:34:00 Close-ups of hand washing station in use. 00:37:03 Interior of medical ward at the tented facility; soldiers rest. Close-ups of saline drip and heart monitor. 00:39:15 Defibrillator machine. 00:39:33 CAT scan machine. Doctor checks computer. END 00:41:36
  • Alternative Title: BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: Colour
  • Digitised:
  • Object_Number: BFV 269
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM
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  • Production Date: 2005-10-05
  • 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: Thorpe, Mark (person) British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: Shaibah Logistics Base, Shaibah, 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: 39 mins
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  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    BFV 269

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    BFV 270 (MEDICAL FACILITIES AT SHAIBAH LOGISTICS BASE, OCTOBER 2005 (TAPE 2) [Allocated Title]) BFV 369 (MEDICAL FACILITIES AT SHAIBAH LOGISTICS BASE, OCTOBER 2005 (MASTER EDIT) [Allocated Title])
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