[FRANZ FERDINAND'S MEMORIAL CEREMONY] [Allocated]


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  • Other title(s): [FRANZ FERDINAND'S MEMORIAL CEREMONY] [Allocated]
  • Year: 1914
  • Runtime: 4 mins
  • Description: A crowd waits at the landing stage as a launch carrying the coffins arrives and they are taken off. A blessing is pronounced over the coffins. The procession winds through the streets of the city. Sailors and soldiers act as escort to the hearses and accompanying carriages. The procession arrives at the cathedral and the coffins are taken inside. (Note the cine-cameraman at work.) The procession returns through the streets.
    Hungarian language version of a newsreel on the procession of the coffins of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife through the streets of Trieste, Austria, July 1914.
  • Keywords: EFG1914 / World War I / Franz Ferdinand (Archduke) / Austro-Hungarian Army / Austro-Hungarian Navy / ceremonies, Austro-Hungarian - event-related: funeral (Archduke Franz Ferdinand) / journalism and record, Austro-Hungarian - cameraman / religion, Christianity - ceremonial, Austro-Hungarian / Austria & Trieste
  • Provider: Imperial War Museums
  • Rights: In Copyright / Imperial War Museums
  • Production company: Gaumont
  • Colour: Black & White
  • Sound: Without sound

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