1948 - USSR, Funeral of Zhdanov. Aug48

NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk 1948 - USSR, Funeral of Zhdanov (Died 31Aug48) Crowds in square. Communist Party VIPs (named on sound track) w/ Molotov, Beria, Malenkov walk past on railroad station platform. 07:04:18 Train decorated w/ picture & flags arrives & coffin carried from train. Funeral cortege from railway station, CUs watching people. Coffin on gun carriage, VIPs walking behind leaving station, thru streets. 07:06:37 Lying in State - VIP mourners standing at solemn attention, people file past in background; filing into building at night. Family mourners; Stalin & Malenkov. 07:08:52 (edit) Stalin, Molotov & others carry coffin out & onto caisson; follow thru streets. 07:09:47 Top shots Red Square procession; procession entering w/ huge wreaths carried - portraits of Zhdanov. Stalin onto podium above Lenin’s tomb w/ members of Poliburo. Zhdanov in open coffin. 07:10:44 Speech made by Molotov, SOF in Russian. Top shot crowd in Red Square; MS crowd. (edit?) 07:11:42 Coffin carried to cemetery. Gun salute - burial. 07:12:29 Military parade / march past, Stalin takes salute from podium , pan Politburo - marching bands, troops. 07:14:16 Picture of Zdanov beside wreaths w/ honor guard. Post-WWII Russia / USSR; Post-WW2; Ceremony; Communism; Aug48; NOTE: FOR ORDERING See: www.footagefarm.co.uk or contact us at: Info@Footagefarm.co.uk