Title:IMMEDIATE RESPONSE TEAM CRASH OUT, 1 NOVEMBER 2005 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 281
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Staged shots taken at Basra Air Station of the Immediate Response Team (IRT), a helicopter-deployed medical unit, scrambling to an emergency.
Description: START 00:00:00 Bars.
00:00:00 Member of the Immediate Response Team" enter a cabin marked "IRT Accommodation". At her bunk, she puts on her flak jacket and helmet. (Several takes.) She takes the medical kits out of the refrigerator and grabs her gun.
00:02:08 Similar sequence featuring a senior officer calling the members of the IRT ready for call-out. Cutaway shots of the team preparing. They leave their corrimec and run.
00:03:39 IRT members relax in the crewroom, reading and playing video games. They receive the "shout" and scramble. Exterior shots as they leave the crewroom at a sprint.
00:04:10 Heipad, where a Sea King helicopter is waiting, powered up. Cut-in shots of cockpit and of the helicopter on the tarmac. (Many of these shots are very shaky.)
00:11:11 Helicopter taxies into position.
00:11:54 Members of the IRT make their way towards the helicopter.
END 00:13:00
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 281
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2005-11-01
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Royal Navy Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Army Medical Corps (regiment/service)
Keywords: Basra International Airport, 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: 13 mins
