Learning on ScreenNews in Colour: Ganges Bathing Festival
Series
- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Story No. within this Issue
- 3 / 3
- Section Title
- News in Colour
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Ganges Bathing Festival Colour. DESCRIPTION: Hardwar on the banks of the sacred river Ganges, a bathing festival that takes place every 12 years and draws pilgrims Sadhus and mystics from all over India. Four and a half million bath in the river in the Kumbh Ceremony to wash away all sin. SHOTLIST: GV Hardwar. GV mass crowd at the banks of River Ganges. SLV people arriving. SV Sadhus & Mystics walking in procession. GV Sadhus on horseback. SV Mystics etc. walking. CU man in parade ringing a bell. SCU woman seated in crowd. SCU other seated. GV people in parade. SV nude Sadhus. GV parade of people. SV crowd. SV High Priest carried in a palinquin. SV Americans in parade, angle top shot people in and by the Ganges. SCU people swimming in water, angle top shot mass crowd on banks of Ganges. Sv people bathing in water. SV ditto with troops supervising. GV Bank & River Ganges. SV people bathing. GV crowd by a clock tower. SV crowd walking with parcels on heads and troops watching. LV people at the banks of the Ganges. Top shot mass crowds at the Ganges. LV top shot people at the banks and in the water.
- Keywords
- Environment; Military; Religion and belief
- Locations
- Delhi
- Footage sources
- India
- Card file number
- 99891
- Credits:
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- Commentator
- Leonard Martin
- Length of story (in feet)
- 269
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