Title:AMMUNITION CLEARANCE AT SITE 51, NEAR SHAIBAH, 15 APRIL 2004 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 529
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: British and Iraqi soldiers educate villagers outside Shaibah in the dangers of unexploded ordnance, before chearing a bunker in an old ammunition dump at an area codenamed "Site 51".
Description: START 00:00:00
00:00:28 In village outside Shaibah, soldiers talk with local people, warning them not to go onto the ammunition site because of the potential dangers. Interpreter holds up a poster showing some of the items to beware of. Children cluster round in large numbers; local men talk to them. The children form a queue and are given bottles of water.
00:06:31 British soldiers prepare for checks. They inspect a local man's car which contains some remnants of ordnance, and talk with local men. Norwegian patrol drives past. Liaison with a local man who is carrying old ordnance in the back of donkey carts to sell as scrap metal. The potentially dangerous ordnance is inspected by the soldiers: "pretty dodgy", says one. Various items are laid on the ground and inspected.
00:17:56 British mentors lead a group of Iraqi Army bomb disposal experts prior to checking the ammunition dump.
00:20:35 Inspection of a bunker (marked "15") on the desolate site. Boxes of old ammunition are removed and placed in a pile. Bagged explosives are also removed and stacked up.
00:26:12 Interior of the now-empty bunker.
00:26:47 The bagged explosives are arraged in a pile
00:28:49 Wide shot of the ammunition site: various vehicles approach, including a Skytrak mobile crane and a heavy duty transport vehicle carrying large wooden boxes which are lifted off the flatbed. These are then filled with the bags of explosives.
END 00:34:01
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 529
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2004-04-15
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (RAF Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army, Royal Engineers (regiment/service)
Iraqi Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: 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: Mini-DV
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Tape length: 60
