Title:RUMAILA BRIDGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION, 23 NOVEMBER 2005 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 290
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Local workers build a new bridge over the river at Rumaila alongside the damaged old bridge.
Description: START 00:00:00 Bars.
00:01:00 British soldiers on guard on the old bridge. Vehicle passes over the bridge.
00:01:30 Dramatic shot from the bridge looking vertically down at local villagers passing below in their boats; they wave.
00:01:50 Wide shot of mesh formed with metal rebar on the new section of bridge, under construction. Locals bend rebar into position.
00:05:28 British soldiers talk to local men about the construction.
00:06:45 Further construction shots.
00:08:49 Traffic (mainly construction vehicles, but also an Iraqi Border Police pick-up) passes by on the old section of bridge.
00:11:01 Soldier with local man; further shots of men at work.
00:12:09 Views from riverside looking up at the span of bridge under construction; damaged concrete (with rebar sticking out of it) from the old bridge lies nearby.
00:14:29 Further views of construction work.
00:15:40 Vehicle passes on the old part of the bridge.
00:16:00 Camera pans up from remnants of the old bridge to the carriageway of the new. (Several takes; vehicles drive past.)
END 00:16:45
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2005 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 290
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2005-11-23
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Royal Navy Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
Dawson, Rick (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Rumaila, 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: 16 mins
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BFV 297 (RUMAILA BRIDGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND AFTER COMPLETION, 19 DECEMBER 2005 [Allocated Title])