Other titles:UNITED NATIONS TELEVISION (UNTV) ZAGREB COLLECTION, YUGOSLAVIA [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: UNTV spends twenty-four hours with the Swedish battalion stationed at Observation Post Tango 18, just outside Tuzla in northern Bosnia.
Description: Footage of UNPROFOR manning a checkpoint. Lieutenant Colonel Le Hardy, Chief of Operations, Sector North-East, explains that this area has been very busy over the last few months and that UNPROFOR has over 80 locations from which to observe what is happening on the ground. Footage of a briefing of Swedish soldiers in NORDBAT 2 preparing to go to Tango 18 Observation Post for 24 hours. Footage of handover from one unit to another and the unloading of equipment. Interview with 2nd Lieutenant Nordin who explains how the men on duty in the Observation Post will be rotated every two hours.
Shot of soldier looking through binoculars at the Observation Post. He explains the procedure following a detonation somewhere nearby. Interview with a soldier preparing a meal. He says that “I’m here so that I don’t do the same thing every day”. Shots of soldiers preparing food and resting. During the night, a soldier reads a report out loud to Tango Lima, lit by red light. In the morning mist, a soldier is on the telephone, another one explains that it is only a few hours before they leave and says that it has been a quiet night. Interview with another soldier who says “ I have experienced war and that is interesting for me as a professional soldier” but he has also seen another country and now understands that war can take place in a civilised country.
Alternative Title:UNITED NATIONS TELEVISION (UNTV) ZAGREB COLLECTION, YUGOSLAVIA [Allocated Series Title]
Colour:English (Tape Code A)
Digitised:
Object_Number:UNT 477
Sound:Croatian (Tape Code C)
Access Conditions:
Featured Period:1990-2000
Production Date:1994-09 1994-11-09
Production Country: UN
Production Details: MacCormick, Niall (Production individual)
Personalities, Units and Organisations:
Keywords: Bosnia-Herzegovina & Tuzla (geography)
Physical Characteristics: Colour format: English (Tape Code A)
Sound format: Croatian (Tape Code C)
Soundtrack language: Serbian (Tape D)
Technical Details: Format: Beta-SP
Number of items/reels/tapes: 1
Running time: 8 mins 56 secs
UNT 506 (UNTV PROGRAMME NO 30 [Main Title])
UNT 477 X (OBSERVATION (UNEDITED RUSHES) [Allocated Title])
UNT 275 (UNPROFOR IN BOSNIA-HERZEGOVINA - COMPILATION FOR NEW YORK [Main Title])