REFERENDUM DAY: POLLING STATION AT AS SAMAWAH, IRAQ, 15 OCTOBER 2005 (DUB) [Allocated Title]

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  • Title: REFERENDUM DAY: POLLING STATION AT AS SAMAWAH, IRAQ, 15 OCTOBER 2005 (DUB) [Allocated Title]
  • Film Number: BFV 274
  • Other titles: BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
  • Summary: The Light Dragoons on foot patrol and assisting the Iraqi Police service in providing security at polling stations.
  • Description: START 00:00:00 00:27:57 Streets (As Samawah) with Snatch Land Rovers on patrol; other soldiers on foot patrol through nmarket area. 01:29:27 Views of As Samawah skyline taken from the roof of the PJOC (Provisional Joint Operations Centre). View of the road below; men walk towards polling station as Iraqi Police walk past on the other side. 01:30:45 Skyline shot; camera pans across to Iraqi flag flying on the roof. 01:31:08 Scenes outside polling station where people vote in an orderly fashion. One man is draped in an Iraqi flag. Iraqi Police presence is high as local dignitaries attend. 01:33:51 Exterior of another local polling station. END 01:34:31
  • Alternative Title: BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
  • Colour: Colour
  • Digitised:
  • Object_Number: BFV 274
  • Sound: Sound
  • Access Conditions: IWM
  • Featured Period:
  • Production Date: 2005-10-15
  • 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, Light Dragoons (regiment/service) Iraqi Police Service (regiment/service)
  • Keywords: As Samawah, 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: 6 mins
  • HD Media:
  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    BFV 274

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    BFV 365 (REFERENDUM DAY: POLLING STATION AT AS SAMAWAH, IRAQ, 15 OCTOBER 2005 (TAPE 1) [Allocated Title]) BFV 366 (REFERENDUM DAY: POLLING STATION AT AS SAMAWAH, IRAQ, 15 OCTOBER 2005 (TAPE 2) [Allocated Title])
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