Czechs Elected New President AKA Funeral… 1953

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Prague, Czechoslovakia.

GV. Funeral procession through Prague. SCU. Pan Former President Klement Gottwald in glass top coffin being drawn through streets. SV. Mourners following. GV.STV. Coffin arriving at the Pantheon. SV. Gottwald's family and other mourners. LV. Coffin on Pantheon steps...

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Cataloguer:
Mark
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
28268
Sort Number:
53/025
Time in/Out:
01:43:25:00 / 01:44:36:00
Canister:
53/25
Film ID:
68.27
Issue Date:
09/04/1953

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