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Throngs Throngs Pay Homage To Nehru

Throngs Throngs Pay Homage To Nehru
Clip: 425250_1_1
Year Shot: 1964 (Actual Year)
Audio: Yes
Video: B/W
Tape Master: 1724
Original Film: 037-044-02
HD: N/A
Location: New Delhi, India
Timecode: 00:18:57 - 00:20:52

A million and a half sorrowing Indians line the streets of New Delhi to bid a tearful farewell to one of the great national heroes Jawaharlal Nehru. His body is borne through the streets on a gun carriage to a funeral pyre on the River Jumna where he is cremated. New Delhi, India Throngs line the streets of India as the funeral slowly makes it way down the street. MS - India's armed forces. MLS - Camera panning the crowd. CUS - An Indian military has his head bent down in sorrow, you see other faces in the frame. MSOH - Nehru laying on a long pillow surrounded by flowers. MS - Nehru's family riding slowly in a convertible MS - Military men carrying Nehru's remains up the stairs and they will lay him down to rest and publicly cremate his body. MS - Lord Mountbatten standing behind a barrier with some other Royals. MCUS - Dean Rusk. MS - Mr. Nehru's daughter and her son. MS - Indian holy men light the fire, the wood is sandalwood laced with incense