SCOTTISH MOVING PICTURE NEWS: FUNERAL OF LIEUTENANT GEORGE DINWOODIE
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Title: SCOTTISH MOVING PICTURE NEWS: FUNERAL OF LIEUTENANT GEORGE DINWOODIE
Reference number: 1458
Date: 1917
Production company: Green's Film Service
Sound: silent
Original format: 35mm
Colour: bw
Fiction: non-fiction
Running time: 1.30 mins
Description:
Funeral of a young Glasgow Airman, Lieutenant George Dinwoodie, RAF, killed in an accident. Shots of bearers carrying the coffin onto the horse-drawn hearse which moves off followed by a carriage filled with flowers, 1917.
Information gleaned from the obituary would suggest that this may well come from one of the first issues of Scottish Moving Picture News as this series started in early October 1917 and the airman had his fatal accident in late August 1917.
Credits: "Scottish Moving Picture News, Green's Film Service" written on opening credit.
Shotlist: No credits; Funeral of a young Glasgow Airman. Lieutenant George S Dinwoodie, RAF, killed by accident in England. Brother officers act as pallbearers. (0.06) Entrance to the family home at 274 Bath Street ?, Glasgow, as uniformed RAF officers carry the coffin down the steps and onto carriage (0.28); Shots of horse-drawn hearse moving off followed by carriage filled with flowers. General views spectators in background (0.49)