Funeral Of Boleslaw Bierut AKA Funeral Of B Bierut - Warsaw (1956)

Unused / unissued material - dates and locations may be unclear / unknown. Warsaw, Poland 14th March 1956: LS High shot crowds outside the House of the PUWP / Polish United Workers’ Party. CU Crowd with banners. MS Mourners filing into the building (2 shots). LS High shot, hall of the House of Party, people walk past the coffin of the late First Secretary of the Central Committee of PUWP, Boleslaw Bierut. MS Soviet delegation as guard-of-honour around the coffin. (3 shots). MS The body of Bierut, President of Poland, lying in state. CU Faces of grieving mourners. (2 shots). CU Bierut’s face. Various shots of the lying in state, including General Chu-teh (China) as part of a guard-of-honour. (8 shots). MS People continuing to queue to see the coffin at night outside the PUWP building. (6 shots). 16th March 1956: High shot of Joseph Stalin Square and the funeral cortege entering. Various shots of the funeral cortege, Polish troops and mourners (including Boleslaw Bierut’s family members of the