Title:LOCAL ELECTIONS IN AZ ZUBAYR, 9 JULY 2004 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 607
Other titles:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Local free council elections are held in Az Zubayr.
Description: START 01:58:32
0159:08 Sign "Az Zubayr Council Elections Joint Operations Room". (This is indoors at Camp Chindit.) Inside the room, 602nd Battalion Iraqi Civil Defence Corps (ICDC) and the Iraqi Police Service (IPS) discuss operations at a map table (in Arabic).
02:21:11 Interviews with Iraqi police officer and ICDC officers (in Arabic).
02:04:35 Local man and women in burqas walk towards polling station. Other men gather outside to wait their turn; they talk to police officers. Men are searched before entering the station.
02:09:21 Scenes inside the polling station; men queue and have are checked. At tables, men are ticked off in the register, receive their polling cards.
02:13:53 Interview with local sheikh.
02:16:08 Local men cast their votes at the large white ballot box, including the sheikh. Close-ups of ballot forms being filled in.
02:24:50 Interviews with polling station official and local man, standing by the ballot box. British solsier briefly seen crossing the line of the camera.
02:26:15 Women queue up to vote and fill in their ballot papers before going to the box.
02:29:05 Men gather outside the polling station.
END 02:30:12
Alternative Title:BRITISH MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IRAQ, 2004 [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 607
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2004-07-09
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre, RAF Uxbridge (Army Combat Camera Team) (Production company)
Allison, Gordon (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: British Army (regiment/service)
Iraqi Civil Defence Corps, 602nd Battalion (regiment/service)
Iraqi Police Service (regiment/service)
Keywords: Az Zubayr, 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: DVCPRO
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Tape length: 33; Running time: 31 mins
