Title:OPERATION SHACKLETON, IRAQ, JANUARY 2006 [Allocated Title]
Film Number:BFV 723
Other titles:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Summary: Coverage of Operation Shackleton, a night arrest operation in Basra targeting the house of a suspect identified by the Iraqi Police Service.
Description: START 00:00:00 Bars.
00:00:41 Soldiers prepare their weapons at unloading bay and vehicles are prepared the soldiers receive final briefing. Convoy readies itself for departure. Camera team soldier smiles for the camera - "watch the headlines tomorrow!" - before getting on board Snatch Land Rover.
00:05:10 Vehicles on street outside suspect house: shot of gate. More vehicles, including Warrior, arrive. The platoon deploys around the main wall and prepare to enter.
00:09:37 Outside main gate of house, which is opened. Ladders are also set up around the wall. (Troops, offscreen, are entering the house.)
00:13:08 Cameraman goes through the main gate and approaches the house: shot of main door where a soldier is standing. Shaky shots as the outer staircase is climbed and the house is entered.
00:15:02 Inside the house, the soldiers begin their search. Cameraman puts his hand over the lens for a period of time. (Sound only at this point.) Outside, other soldiers patrol the grounds and the street, where Land Rovers and a Warrior armoured vehicle are parked.
00:17:12 Hand is removed from the camera lens as the cameraman heads back downstairs into the garden and patio. Views of the garden and the street outside where the army vehicles are gathered. Cameraman crouched against wall.
00:22:33 Off screen voice says "move in now to film the detention going on". Cameraman re-enters the house.
00:22:49 Normal camera: inside the house, a subject is detained and his effects are searched.
00:25:11 Search of the house continues: captured weapons, including an AK47, are displayed. Other items are bagged and inventoried. Second suspect is arrested and processed. Still photographer takes shots.
00:30:13 Search continues: a handgun is discovered near a sofa. Views inside the house as the bedroom is inspected. A 9mm automatic handgun is found, along with a cache of other weapons. Detainee is photographed before being led away.
00:36:08 Image intensifier: troops gather around the rear door of the Warrior. Vehicles in the street.
00:06:25 Normal camera: house search continues - a box of ammunition and a large calibre gun are found in the bedroom. Other items are bagged and inventoried.
00:41:21 Back at base, Major Nick Wood, OC Chindit Company, 1st Battalion the King's Own Royal Border Regiment attached to the Basra City Battle Group, talks about the operation. (The suspect individual and two of his bodyguards were arrested.)
END 00:44:17
Alternative Title:COLLECTION OF DEFENCE MEDIA OPERATIONS CENTRE VIDEOS [Allocated Title]
Colour:Colour
Digitised:No
Object_Number:BFV 723
Sound:Sound
Access Conditions:IWM
Featured Period:
Production Date:2006-01
Production Country: GB
Production Details: Defence Media Operations Centre (Production sponsor)
Dawson, Rick (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations: Wood, Nick (person)
British Army, King's Own Royal Border Regiment, 1st Battalion, Chindit Company (regiment/service)
Iraqi Police Service (regiment/service)
Iraqi Police Service, Tactical Support Unit (regiment/service)
Keywords: Basra, 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: DVCam
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Tape length: 40; Running time: 44 mins
