Gagarin Funeral 1968

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No title. Funeral of Russian spaceman / cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, Moscow (USSR, Soviet Union).

L/S crowds queuing up outside Central House of the Soviet Army to file past urns of ashes of Yuri Gagarin and V.S. Seregin (test pilot killed in same air crash as Gagarin). Angle shot pan ditto.

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Cataloguer:
Amelia
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
56662
Sort Number:
68/028
Time in/Out:
01:11:10:00 / 01:12:23:00
Canister:
68/28
Film ID:
2057.11
Issue Date:
04/04/1968

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