| GANGSTERS - BABY KILLERS - A NATION STIRRED AT LAST!! Funeral for a child gunned | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 5454 |
| Catalog #: | 52699 | |
| Clip Number: | 52699-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 31/67 | |
| Timecode: | 01.21.48 - 01.23.20 | |
| Location: | New York, New York, US | |
| Year Shot: | 1931 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | Yes | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CRIME: Homicide / Murder CRIME: Organized FUNERALS: Misc LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, New York, New York | |
| Description: | “New York. Gangsters - baby killers - a nation stirred at last!! Exactly as shown by us, throughout America - narrative and picture which vividly (as no written word could do) brings home to us here the lesson - and dire peril of gangster warfare.” New York, United States of America (USA). Crowds in street watch as coffin of small child is carried out to waiting cars. Pan up to show people watching from windows. MS of coffin being carried by boys. Top views of procession of boys in white behind coffin. Friends and family kneel by wreaths of flowers. More shots of people in street. Tilt down church as coffin is carried out. The weeping mother and other mourners follow the coffin. The mother kneels by the graveside. She is so anguished that she has to be restrained from throwing herself into the grave. More shots after she has calmed down a little. Flowers are piled on the grave. | |
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