The shrine of sorrow.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

British Film Institute, owner.

Topical Film Co., production company.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aircraft accidents.

Airships.

Church buildings.

Crowds.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Memorial service.

Motor vehicles.

Parades.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (7 minutes, 43 seconds)) : silent, black and white.

Place of Publication:

[Great Britain] : Topical Film Company, 1930.

Summary:

"The Shrine of Sorrow. At Westminster Hall, an endless stream of mourners pass in silent homage to the Nation's honoured dead." (16). Crowds seen outside Westminster Hall where the dead from the R101 airship disaster lie in state (47). "Let us now praise famous men". At St Paul's Cathedral, the people's sorrow found expression in the deeply affecting In Memoriam service"(57). The memorial service to the dead: HAS of entrance to St. Paul's steps; arrival of carriages and cars (62). MLS The Lord Mayor of London and his wife alight and are greeted, they enter the Cathedral (75). HAS of the steps; arrival of the car of the Prince of Wales (late Duke of Windsor) (82). The Prince walks up the steps (89). MLS along the steps as other people enter the Cathedral (97). Union flag at half mast (103). HAS of crowd leaving the Cathedral (121). "The Last Journey" (122). The coffins are taken from Westminster Hall and placed on horse-drawn carts (151). The cortege passes along Whitehall past mourners. Passing the Cenotaph (208). "Home!" (209). HAS Bedford railway station. A train bearing the coffins arrives; the guard of honour; coffins are placed on waiting lorries which drive off. The cortege passing through country lanes lined with mourners (302). Arrival at the cemetery at Cardington; LS the coffins are removed from the lorries and drapedin the Union flag (308). LS of the burial (313). Further arrival of coffins(322). The mourners, in the background can be seen two airship hangars (337). The burials (341). The last post (353). "At the going down of the sun and inthe morning we shall remember them". (362). Topical Budget logo.

Notes:

Issue number: 998-2.

Note: The R101 airship left Cardington in Bedforshire on 4th October 1930. It crashed near Beauvais, France on the 5th. 48 of the 54 passengers and crew died. The coffins, after lying in state, were transported to Cardington and buried in one grave on 11th October 1930.

Series: Topical Budget.

With intertitles.