FUNERAL OF PROVOST YOUNG STRANRAER
An elderly woman pushes past the camera, children look at the camera, not the procession. Following the hearse, many top-hatted men precede a carriage full of flowers and a Rolls-Royce carrying the family into the cemetery. (clip)
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Title: FUNERAL OF PROVOST YOUNG STRANRAER
Reference number: 0551
Date: 1914, April 8
Sponsor: [ Empire Cinema, Stranraer]
Production company: Gaumont News
Sound: mute
Original format: 35mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 6.00 mins
Description: Horse drawn funeral procession for Provost Young, Stranraer.
Credits: [made at request of cinema proprietor Ernest Amy]
Shotlist: title (0.03); Shots of procession, pipe band and crowd. Civic official leads mourners, horse-drawn hearse. General shots of the mourners and funeral procession. Shots of the horse-drawn carriage and of a motor car (3.30); Procession turns into cemetery. Shot of crowd outside gates (5.25)