| GANDHI FUNERAL Funeral of Mahatma Gandhi. India. | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 7964 |
| Catalog #: | 32951 | |
| Clip Number: | 32951-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | UN 1894 A | |
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| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | FUNERALS: Celebrity FUNERALS: Civic PERSONALITIES: Gandhi, Mahatma (Mohandas Karamchand) | |
| Description: | GANDHI FUNERAL Funeral of Mahatma Gandhi. India. India. L/S Indian spectators on the route of the funeral procession watching from a tree. C/U spectators up a telegraph pole. C/U Indians squatting reading paper. M/S men and women using truck as grandstand. L/S crowds sitting about on open heath. Various shots sifting Gandhi's ashes. M/S soldiers guarding ashes. C/U ashes. L/S crowds filing past ashes. M/S soldiers guarding ashes. C/U ashes. L/S crowds filing past ashes. Various shots people kneeling before ashes. M/S Randas Gandhi, one of his sons. Various shots Lord and Lady Louis Mountbatten squatting on the grass at the funeral pyre. M/S elevated shot of the above showing Pandit Jawarahal Nehru. Various shots standing at site of the pyre. M/S Nehru and party crouching down. M/S Nehru on balcony of Birla House. L/S the spot where Gandhi was assassinated, roped in. C/U boy digging handfuls of earth from the spot. Various shots as he hands earth to crowd. L/S general view of the river Jumna where Gandhi was cremated. | |
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