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- BFI identifier503937
- Date1912-08 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
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- SynopsisMain title. "Impressive burial of the Great Salvationist" (5). The house where he died and crowds attending the lying-in-state" (12). MS large house (27). MS people, women with their heads covered, filing through gateway (47). "THE FUNERAL. The coffin leaving the Salvation Army headquarters" (49). HAS headquarters, the coffin is carried out (49), titles (50), to the horse-drawn hearse with the words HE LAID DOWN HIS SWORD on it. Salvationists file past and salute the coffin (111). MCU police holding back the crowds as a woman is carried away (121). HAS Salvationist women file past HQ. Another woman is carried from the crowd (132). "The procession through the streets, and scenes at the cemetery " (141). MS standard bearers leading the procession along a crowd-lined street followed by the Congress hall band (165). The hearse passes (197); followed by Salvationists (213). MS crowd following behind (226). HAS as procession passes through Abney Park Cemetery gates (270). MS coffin at graveside. The Salvationists stand and a speaker addresses the assembled crowd (294ft). (Shotlist)
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London. General Booth's Funeral (Original)
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Non FictionThis work is available from BFI Archive Sales
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35mm BW Positive - Safety - Silent - Master
35mm Dupe Negative - Nitrate - Silent - Status pending
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Series Work - 784010
United Kingdom - Film - Non Fiction
- +London. General Booth's Funeral
Work - 503937 - 1912-08 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Non Fiction
- +London. General Booth's Funeral
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