Indians's Memorial Service.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

British Film Institute, owner.

Topical Film Co., production company.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cemeteries.

Memorial service.

Memorials.

Older people.

Pilgrims and pilgrimages.

Rites and ceremonies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file (1 minute, 17 seconds)) : silent, black and white.

Place of Publication:

[Great Britain] : Topical Film Company, 1914.

Summary:

"INDIAN'S MEMORIAL SERVICE. Red Indians from the White City, make a pilgrimage to the graveside of `Lone Wolf' who was buried in Brompton Cemetery 1892' (3). Long shot of fourteen Indians in costume, wearing either feathered headdresses or feathers in hair, riding on horseback through archway at entrance to cemetery, preceded by three cowboys on horseback (20). Group of Indians sat around gravestone, with kneeling Indian placing package on grave, while another Indian, who is holding a pipe, places a feather in the ground at the foot of the gravestone. A group of men are watching in the background (47). Two Indians wearing feathered headdresses, one in profile (56ft).

Notes:

Issue number: 147-2.

Series: Topical Budget.

This film includes terminology or representations which some people may find offensive.

With intertitles.