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Royal Marines operations in Kosovo.
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Royal Marines medics visit clinics in Serbian and mixed Serbian/Albanian villages in Kosovo as part Operation Trojan, which aimed to encourage displaced Serbian Kosovans to return to their homes by offering protection and support. The Marines are also assisting local medics by providing security.
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Operation Trojan North: battlefield ambulances, landscape views, and derelict buildings; also formal shot of the tower at Kosovo Polje commemorating the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 (also location of Slobodan Milošević's speech on 28 June 1989). Information board gives details of Operation Trojan in Serbian. Ambulances drive through the Serbian areas, showing ruined buildings and other damage. The ambulance visits a small Serb cottage hospital.
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Operation Trojan South: scenes at the headquarters of the Royal Marines Commando Logistic Regiment Medical Squadron (Light Aid Detachment), where ambulances are prepared. Dentist. Drive-through of Kosovan streets following a KFOR ambulance as it visits a Serbian clinic. Marines play ball with children; one brushes up her language skills with a local man. Interview (in English) with an interpreter working for KFOR.
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Operation Sexton, the search for the alleged victims of genocide. Scenes at a makeshift roadside grave in Podujevo, where alleged victims of war crimes are buried. Preparation is made for exhumation of the bodies for forensic analysis (to determine cause of death): mechanical digger is unloaded. At the grave site, flowers left by well-wishers are searched, and a cadaver dog is brought in. The area is taped off. Member of the forensic team films the operations with a camcorder.
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ROYAL MARINES VIDEO PRODUCTION UNIT SHOTSHEET
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The following has been copied, without amendment, from RMVPU electronic shotsheets:
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00:00 BARS
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00:30 W/s ambulance Land Rovers
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00:36 KFOR Land Rover ambulance pan out wide to accommodation
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00:55 W/s landscape 360 pan
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01:53 L/s derelict building pan out from building
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02:19 L/s town pan away to town and landscape
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02:37 L/s tower
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03:10 L/s information board
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03:41 W/s buildings pans to other buildings
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04:30 C/u building pan away to other building
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05:02 W/s moving camera (on vehicle) buildings
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06:11 L/s hospital panning towards hospital
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06:29 M/s children
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06:34 M/s moving camera people
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08:03 L/s sign pan away to 4 tonne
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08:46 L/s entrance to military camp, moving vehicles
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09:32 W/s vehicles
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09:54 L/s dentist pan to c/u
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10:20 C/u dentist pan to l/s
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10:34 L/s hospital
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10:45 L/s back of ambulance surrounding area town/market
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14:12 W/s ambulance, siren on then Land Rover moving across picture
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14:44 L/s camera moving (on vehicle) street + houses
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14:57 L/s ambulance people getting in pan to building
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15:13 L/s ambulance pan onto building behind vehicle
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15:32 W/s ambulance pan away to street
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15:54 C/u sign pan to w/s of street and ambulance
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16:16 L/s marines playing with children
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16:59 L/s marines with children c/u sign – gravestone
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17:30 L/s sign – gravestone pan across Land Rover to street
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17:46 L/s nurse learning local language from local
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18:09 W/s camera moving (on vehicle) houses
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18:34 W/s Land Rover + ambulance c/u to people
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19:03 M/s people queuing up pan to ma's back to people
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19:30 M/s people (locals) pan away to ma's with locals
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19:51 M/s interviewing local with Land Rover ambulance background
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25:01 W/s convoy – many UN + KFOR Land Rovers and one 4 tonne
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25:52 W/s convoy parked locals watching
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26:19 Military digger unloading from 8 tonne
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27:08 C/u diggers tracks pan away digger drives off
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27:49 W/s ma's in back of 4 tonne
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28:37 L/s tools (spades) on stretcher pan away to personnel
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28:52 L/s military personnel and dog searching around flowers
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31:56 L/s people filming/pictures of flowers in graveyard
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33:15 B/cu piece of blank paper
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33:30 L/s people around convoy taking off forensic suits
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33:51 L/s people searching flowers and ground around it
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Beta-SP