Title:CONTROLLED EXPLOSION OF SUSPECT CAR, IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 473
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Silent footage showing a suspect car being dealt with; this is parked near the main gate of a British Army base, although the location is not given.
Description: View from gate, over razor wire, shows car on the road in the middle distance. Further back, traffic on the approach road has been stopped as onlookers watch (even further back, traffic is seen passing on an open highway. The car explodes at 02:27 - the camera has moved and almost misses it. The roof flies into the air. A Wheelbarrow bomb disposal robot moves in. Shaky shots as the camera repositions itself, showing the main gate with bomb disposal crew
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
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Object_Number:BFV 473
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2004
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Iraq (geography)
Operation Telic, Iraq War 2003-2009 (event)
British Army post-2000 (theme)
Iraq post-2003 (theme)
