Title:SHURA AT SANGIN PLATOON HOUSE, AFGHANISTAN, 17 JULY 2006 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 1203
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Scenes at a shura (meeting of elders), with local elders outside the Sangin Platoon House. Mohammed Daoud Safi, the Governor of Helmand Province address the meeting. Tape also includes general activities of British troops at the Platoon House and at a mortar position, plus shots at Camp Bastion of soldiers returning from Sangin in a Chinook helicopter.
Description: SHOTSHEET (copied, without amendment, from accompanying Defence Media Operations Centre computer disc):
START 00:45:00 Troops sat around mortar position.
02:05:00 Sangin elders arriving for Shura
03:22:00 Elders sit for Shura to start Close ups of some faces. Long shot of whole group with Pan L to R and back. Tilt from tree leaves to group and back x2. CU of Governor Doud (black beard and sunglasses)
07:48:00 British soldiers sat around talking and smoking. Sign "Welcome to the suck". Pan around mortar position. Soldiers building up sandbag defences.
13:37:00 CH-47 at Bastion bringing troops back from Sangin.
END 19:52:07
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE (DMOC) VIDEOS [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:
Object_Number:BFV 1203
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:
Featured Period:2001-2025
Production Date:2006-07-17
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production company)
Punter, Paul (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Safi, Mohammed Daoud (person)
British Army (regiment/service)
Keywords: Sangin, Helmand, Afghanistan (geography)
Camp Bastion, Helmand, Afghanistan (geography)
British Operations in Afghanistan from 2002 (event)
British Army post-2000 (theme)
Afghanistan post-2001 (theme)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: Colour
Sound format: Sound
Soundtrack language: English
Title language: Pashto
Technical Details: Format: Mini-DV
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Tape length: 60; Running time: 19 mins
