Title:OPERATION BRACKEN, IRAQ, 16 TO 26 NOVEMBER 2004 (EDIT 4 - BBC POOL MATERIAL) [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 1151
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Members of 1st Battalion the Black Watch at Camp Dogwood take part in Operation Tobruk, a counter-insurgency operation targeting an Iraqi village known to be a hiding place for insurgents and people loyal to Saddam. In a tent, soldiers receive orders prior to the operation, introduced by Lieutenant Colonel James Cowan; this is followed by an outside briefing using a large map on the ground. Image intensifier shots at night showing battlegroup assembly area; houses are broken into, searched and suspects arrested; firecrackers are let off to disorientate the houses' occupants. Daylight: further houses are searched. These are BBC Pool rushes.
Description: SHOTSHEET (copied, without amendment, from accompanying Defence Media Operations Centre computer disc):
START 00:10:00 Various shot of the orders process in a tent for OP Tobruk.
19:21:00 Various shots of orders process over a infantry model.
35:17:00 Night vision shots of Battle group Assembly area.
35:35:00 Various night vision shots of soldiers entering Compounds and searching rooms and detaining male occupants.
42:32:00 Various daylight images of soldiers searching compounds and removing males for Identification.
48:09:00 Doorsteps I.V. with Black watch Major.
48:24:00 Various daylight images of soldiers searching compounds and removing males for Identification.
51:08:00 Tape ends.
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 1151
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:NON-IWM
Featured Period:2001-2025
Production Date:2004-11-23
Production Country: GB
Production Details: British Broadcasting Corporation (Production company)
Stone, Duncan (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Cowan, James (person)
British Army, Black Watch (Royal Highland Regiment), 1st Battalion (regiment/service)
Keywords: Iraq (geography)
Operation Telic, Iraq War 2003-2009 (event)
British Army post-2000 (theme)
Iraq post-2003 (theme)
