Aberfan - The Final Tribute

Series

Series Name

British Movietone News

Issue

Issue No.

1952

Date Released

31 Oct 1966

Stories in this Issue:

1. 1Twelve Months of Christmas
2. 2Use and Useless
3. 3Artist of the Turf
4. 4Aberfan - The Final Tribute

Story

Story No. within this Issue

4 / 4

Summary

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: The Final Tribute. DESCRIPTION: The mass burial of many of the victims of the disaster at Aberfan. A week after the tip avalanched onto the village, at last streets are silenced - the tumult of rescue is stilled. The bodies of eighty one children and one adult share the mass burial. Altogether, a hundred and forty five bodies have been found. SHOTLIST: GV Aberfan Street. MLS shop closed. MLS shop closed except for flowers. MS pan hearse passes. GV Aberfan Cemetery. LS coffin carried from hearse. GV ditto. GV hearse arrives at cemetery. Zoom out coffin, carried to mass grave. LS mourners by side of grave. GV pan mourners arrive at cemetery. LS mourners in cemetery. GV ditto. Pan ditto. GV ditto (with coal tips in background). Pan ditto.

Keywords

Social events; Funerals

Locations

Wales; Glamorgan; Aberfan; Merthyr Tydfil

Card file number

91732

Credits:

Commentator

Leslie Mitchell

Length of story (in feet)

174

Story extras:

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