Learning on ScreenEamon De Valera
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- Series Name
- British Movietone News
Issue
Story
- Summary
- MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: De Valera Funeral. DESCRIPTION: Movietone record the ‘Lying-in-State’ and funeral of ex-President Eamon de Valera. De Valera is a name that will be forever linked with the emergence of the Irish Republic. The people of Ireland paid their last respects as the body of their ex-leader lay in St. Patrick’s Hall. A Requiem Mass was celebrated in Dublin’s Pro-Cathedral and then the coffin was bourne on a gun carriage to its final resting place, GLASNEVIN CEMETERY. SHOTLIST: GV pan down from clock tower Dublin Castle to gate with cortege arriving from Linden Nursing Home (early evening). LV clock tower. TV cortege moving through yard. SV clock tower. TV coffin being borne by Military Police into St. Patrick’s Hall for lying in state. SV pan interior wreaths round hall, wreath from Queen Elizabeth pan to wreath of red carnations from Russian government. STV open coffin lying in state de Valera, dressed in Carmelite Monk habit. TV ditto pan to family about to file past. SV President of Ireland & Mrs O’Dalaigh walking past on right. SV other members of Irish government about to file past. TV members of Irish government paying homage. TV coffin. GV clock tower next morning public queuing to get in. SV interior public filing past open coffin. SV figure of justice with tricolour on half mast. GV motor cycle escort preceding the cortege. FV O’Connell Monument. SV pan to BV as coffin on gun carriage passes monument. FV pan cars following the mourners. BV as cortege goes down O’Connell Street and passes GPO building. SV spectators. GV cathedral in Marlborough Street. SV statue on top of building. SV pan bishop procession into cathedral zoom into Cardinal Conway. SV spectators. BV interior service in progress, coffin resting on its bier draped in tricolour. SV people in cathedral kneeling by coffin and laying hands on it. GV exterior cathedral pan down as coffin is borne by army out to gun carriage. SV coffin being borne to gun carriage. CU gun carriage. SV clergy watching. SV pan as carriage moves off. GV cortege moving through street. SV exterior GPO building. CU flag flying at half mast on top of building. SV pan army band No 1 leading officers and men of 25th battalion. SV pan officers of 25th battalion leading cortege past GPO building. SV pan Irish navy in cortege passing GPO building. SV officers & flag bearer passing GPO. SV pan carriage & coffin passes GPO. SV de Valera in train carriage talking to 2 men (Library scene 99920 & 08757). CU de Valera ditto library issue.
- Local distribution only
- Special Issue for Ireland only.
- Keywords
- Politics and government; Buildings and structures; Music and dance; Vehicles; Death; Ceremonies; Navy; Military; Funerals; Religion and belief
- Locations
- Republic of Ireland
- Footage sources
- Library
- Card file number
- 75/310
- Credits:
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- Camera
- George Fleishchmann
- Commentator
- Leonard Martin
- Length of story (in feet)
- 516
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