RUMAILA BRIDGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION, 23 NOVEMBER 2005 [Allocated Title]

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  • 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
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  • 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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  • Link to IWM Collections page:

    BFV 290

  • Related IWM Collections Objects:

    BFV 401 (RUMAILA BRIDGE AFTER COMPLETION, 18 DECEMBER 2005 [Allocated Title]) BFV 297 (RUMAILA BRIDGE UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND AFTER COMPLETION, 19 DECEMBER 2005 [Allocated Title])
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