Other titles:ROYAL NAVY VIDEOS: 2000s [Allocated Series Title]
Summary: Coverage of Operation Barwood, the provision of helicopter support and relief supplies to Mozambique and parts of South Africa after severe flooding in March 2000; also scenes at CAM (the Christian School in Mozambique). Sequences are rough edits of material taken by the cameramen of the Directorate of Public Relations (Navy) for possible use by UK television.
Description: (Tape 1) Cockpit views from helicopter taking off from ship and landing at a small airport in Beira, Mozambique. Interior of the terminal building: refugees (?) sleeping rough. Makeshift operations room with laptop computers. Sign DFID (Department for International Development). Supplies are loaded into helicopter, which takes off: cockpit shots as helicopter flies over flooded landscape with damaged buildings. Landing in devastated village; supplies are unloaded and refugees (women and children) are taken onto the helicopter, which flies back to Beira. Shots of Beira airport with stormy sky. (After 16 mins, tape has part of a GMTV interview with Gordon Brown, left over from previous use of the cassette).
(Tape 2) In Maputo, Royal Marines Lieutenant-Colonel gives a statement (to off-screen reporter) summing up at the end of Operation Barwood, noting the work of DFID (Department for International Development), offering criticism of the Mozambique government's lack of response and praising the system of Rapid Deployment now in use by British forces.
(Tape 3) Life and lessons at the Christian Academy in Mozambique (CAM), a school in Maputo for the children of missionaries which offers a US-style educational curriculum. Interview with Marine praising the opportunity to visit the school to see where money donated had been used. There is also an interview with the School's Director, Claude A Meyers.
Alternative Title:ROYAL NAVY VIDEOS: 2000s [Allocated Series Title]
